| ▲ | retvrn 2 days ago |
| For those outside the Americas, yes. Western hemisphere immigration had no meaningful restrictions until 1965. |
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| ▲ | rayiner 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| We had little meaningful immigration pressure from the america at the time. The foreign born population dropped from 15% in 1921 to under 5% by 1970. |
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| ▲ | retvrn 2 days ago | parent [-] | | We’re backing away from: > The U.S. had a draconian restrictive immigration policy from 1921-1965. to “well ok not really but it didn’t matter”? | | |
| ▲ | rayiner 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It did matter. It was restrictive in actual effect, in that it blocked immigration from the places it was mainly coming from, and dropped the foreign born population under 5% by 1970. |
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