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Hart-Celler Act

Hart-Celler Act

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Oct 30, 2026

Khyati JoshiGUEST
27:30
I was 18 months old.
Khyati JoshiGUEST
27:33
And, you know, my parents were part of the wave that came after the Immigration Act of 1965, which opened up our immigration doors, which had been effectively shut since 1924.
Khyati JoshiGUEST
27:47
And I talk about the details of both those immigration acts somewhere in the podcast.
Khyati JoshiGUEST
27:53
I can't remember exactly what episode.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:49
Let Mami Kami in New York City, the mayor, explain Idi Amin.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:54
If we don't end the 1965 Immigration Act, we will lose every election.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:59
Folks, you've got to vote like there's no tomorrow.
DannyAUDIENCE
65:02
Tuesday is a call to action.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:50
Let Mami Kami in New York City, the mayor, explain Idi Amin.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:54
If we don't end the 1965 Immigration Act, we will lose every election.
DannyAUDIENCE
64:59
Folks, you've got to vote like there's no tomorrow.
DannyAUDIENCE
65:02
Tuesday is a call to action.
Nick FreitasHOST
44:05
We didn't have a federal income tax until the early 20th century.
Nick FreitasHOST
44:12
And it wasn't until Hart-Celler and then all of a sudden we had the mass importation over the last, you know, arguably 60 years in the United States where now we started to mass import people from vastly different cultures.
Nick FreitasHOST
44:26
that it was almost like we were commanded to believe that, no, this is who we've always been.
Nick FreitasHOST
44:31
This is who we've always been.
SteveAUDIENCE
35:31
They actually hate conservative patriotic Americans more than anybody else in the world, because those are the ones who they fear the most, because those are intelligent people who know what's going on, and they want to stop it cold.
SteveAUDIENCE
35:45
The 1965 Immigration Act turned this country upside down.
SteveAUDIENCE
35:49
Look at the guy running in Michigan.
SteveAUDIENCE
35:51
He's got a carbon copy guy running for Congress in New Jersey.
EricaHOST
55:54
What do you think, Joshua? Yes, I think...
Joshua LisecGUEST
55:58
Part of her issue is that following the, let's say, Hart-Celler Act, we have seen, which basically like, immigration can come from anywhere.
Joshua LisecGUEST
56:09
Send us 100 million people, which is about how many entered from 1970 until the year 2000, immigrants from the United States, largely from non-Western, non-white countries, non-Christian also, I think more importantly, not sharing the values, not sharing the worldview.
Joshua LisecGUEST
56:23
And the adjective and the noun American have been decoupled and are now different things.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:36
You actually need to use poetry to explore the duration of painting, to explore the possibility of painting.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:44
And, you know, she wrote this in the mid 60s, 1966, not too long after the Hart-Celler Act was signed into law.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:56
So this law abolished the national origins quota system, which was this, you know, overtly racist system.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:07
law limiting the numbers of Asian and African immigrants to the U.S. based on this notion that they could not assimilate to U.S. culture, and instead instantiated this system that allowed certain classes and occupations based on the supposed needs of the U.S. workforce to come to the U.S. Ono herself, as an immigrant from war-torn Japan, is acutely interested in what it means to assimilate culturally and into the workforce.
Keegan Cook FinbergGUEST
25:18
You actually need to use poetry to explore the duration of painting, to explore the possibility of painting.
Keegan Cook FinbergGUEST
25:27
And she wrote this in the mid-60s, 1966, not too long after the Hart-Celler Act was signed into law.
Keegan Cook FinbergGUEST
25:38
So this law abolished the national origins quota system, which was this, you know, overtly racist system.
Keegan Cook FinbergGUEST
25:50
law limiting the numbers of Asian and African immigrants to the U.S. based on this notion that they could not assimilate to U.S. culture and instead instantiated this system that allowed certain classes and occupations based on the supposed needs of the U.S. workforce to come to the U.S.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:06
You actually need to use poetry to explore the duration of painting, to explore the possibility of painting.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:14
And, you know, she wrote this in the mid-60s, 1966, not too long after the Hart-Celler Act was signed into law.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:26
So this law abolished the National Origins Quota System, which was this, you know, overtly racist system.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:37
law limiting the numbers of Asian and African immigrants to the U.S. based on this notion that they could not assimilate to U.S. culture, and instead instantiated this system that allowed certain classes and occupations based on the supposed needs of the U.S. workforce to come to the U.S. Ono herself, as an immigrant from war-torn Japan, is acutely interested in what it means to assimilate culturally and into the workforce.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:36
You actually need to use poetry to explore the duration of painting, to explore the possibility of painting.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:44
And, you know, she wrote this in the mid 60s, 1966, not too long after the Hart-Celler Act was signed into law.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
19:56
So this law abolished the national origins quota system, which was this, you know, overtly racist system.
Keegan Cook-FinbergGUEST
20:07
law limiting the numbers of Asian and African immigrants to the U.S. based on this notion that they could not assimilate to U.S. culture, and instead instantiated this system that allowed certain classes and occupations based on the supposed needs of the U.S. workforce to come to the U.S. Ono herself, as an immigrant from war-torn Japan, is acutely interested in what it means to assimilate culturally and into the workforce.

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