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Protect Goa's natural beauty
Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve
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The Exclusion Act of 1928 barred "Orientals," "East Europeans" and "South
Europeans" from entry to the US. The much respected Rep. Peter Rodino pressed
for the repeal that resulted in the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 that was
signed into law by John F. Kennedy. Quotas were based on population, the
biggest going to India and China, set at 25,000 each a year.
Sen. Strom Thurmond would claim later that he did not block the measure in
the senate because Kennedy's Attorney General had mislead him with the
numbers: 50,000 entrants over ten years, when in fact the law was set to bring
in as many every month of the year !
Quirks in the old law would result in situations such as a child born to
British parents residing in India being denied entry whilst a sibling born in
Britain was welcomed.
I invite Santoshbab to comment on the 'moron' tests administered
to non-Anglo Europeans in 1928.
