How the 1965 Immigration Act Rewired America

In this episode, we delve into the topic of How the 1965 Immigration Act Rewired America. {"transcription":"WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500\nImagine you're part of a highly exclusive club,\n\n00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.780\nand the founders of this club set up these incredibly\n\n00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:09.900\nrigid rules for who gets in. Right, like a carefully\n\n00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:12.919\ncurated, highly restricted guest list. Exactly.\n\n00:00:13.419 --> 00:00:15.939\nThey basically ensure that only people who look\n\n00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.739\ntalk and act exactly like them ever make it past\n\n00:00:19.739 --> 00:00:21.920\nthe velvet rope. But eventually, you know, the\n\n00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:23.699\npressure gets too high. Oh, totally. You can't\n\n00:00:23.699 --> 00:00:25.820\nkeep that up forever. Right. People are protesting\n\n00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:28.019\noutside. The optics are just terrible on the\n\n00:00:28.019 --> 00:00:30.420\nglobal stage. So the club leaders say, fine,\n\n00:00:30.579 --> 00:00:32.159\nwe'll change the rules. We'll make the admissions\n\n00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.140\nprocess fair. But there's a catch, sponsor their\n\n00:08:14.069 --> 00:08:16.589\nparents or their siblings. It's exponential growth.\n\n00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:18.930\nIt rapidly accelerated immigration from Asia,\n\n00:08:19.189 --> 00:08:22.189\nAfrica, and Latin America. And the lawmakers\n\n00:08:22.189 --> 00:08:24.209\nat the time were just entirely blind to this\n\n00:08:24.209 --> 00:08:27.040\nreality. When the bill is being debated and it\n\n00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.560\npassed by wide margins by the way like 74 percent\n\n00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:31.639\nof Democrats and 85 percent of Republicans voted\n\n00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.580\nfor it Politicians were literally standing on\n\n00:08:34.580 --> 00:08:37.320\nthe Senate floor making sweeping promises. They\n\n00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.019\ncouldn't possibly keep oh The quotes from that\n\n00:08:40.019 --> 00:08:43.460\ntime are amazing Yeah, Ted Kennedy publicly assured\n\n00:08:43.460 --> the visas or the labor certifications\n\n00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:04.900\nwe just spent the last 15 minutes detailing.\n\n00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.000\nDespite all the modern caps, quotas, and border\n\n00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.359\nmilitarization, that profound ancient indigenous\n\n00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.420\nright still quietly survives deep inside the\n\n00:20:14.420 --> 00:20:17.380\nmachinery of modern bureaucracy. It's an amazing\n\n00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:19.839\nreminder to look closely at the rules of whatever\n\n00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:22.319\nclub you're in, because sometimes times, the\n\n00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.880\nmost profound forces shaping the future are the\n\n00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:27.240\npolitical compromises no one paid attention to,\n\n00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.119\nand the engine promises no one dared to erase.\n\n00:20:30.700 --> 00:20:32.180\nThanks for joining us on this Deep Dive.\n","format":"vtt","status":"published"}