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"The Hart–Celler Act of 1965 marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. Previous laws restricted immigration from Asia and Africa, and gave preference to northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern Europeans.[2] In the 1960s, the United States faced both foreign and domestic pressures to change its nation-based formula, which was regarded as a system that discriminated based on an individual's place of birth."
Yep that debacle allowed me to immigrate to this country.
If it wasn't for that law I wouldn't be here, either, but that doesn't mean I can't look at its overarching effects in an objective manner. It's pretty clear the "historical majority" that existed in the United States at the time the act was passed in 1965 has been detrimentally affected by the mass immigration that followed, and in the next decade or two is going to permanently lose all political power in the country that it created due to demographic displacement. There is no reason not to acknowledge that some people lost as a result of the law just because you or I may have personally benefited from it. Not in this forum, at any rate.