IMMIGRATION REFORM? REPUBLICANS SAY NO THANKS!
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 March 2021
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DEBATE! Thom Vs Julio Rivera - Why Do Republican's Support Trump's and His Cronies White Supremacists Opposition to Immigration Reform?
Professor John A. Powell - Chauvin trial and the roots of systemic racism in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome back Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:18.6 | So back in 1965, white people represented 85% non-Hispanic whites represented 85% of |
| 0:27.8 | the American population, 50 years later that proportion is 62% and falling. |
| 0:34.5 | And this is largely attributed to the Heart Cellar Act of 1965, the reversed a 1924 immigration |
| 0:42.4 | law that said that if the United States was 85% white, then 85% of all immigrants must |
| 0:48.6 | be white. |
| 0:49.6 | And the same for every other racial category, in other words freezing America's racial |
| 0:54.8 | divisions, exactly where they were. |
| 0:56.7 | That got reversed in 1965 by Lynn and Johnson. |
| 0:59.9 | And Republicans and Democrats in Congress. |
| 1:03.0 | And it has had some consequence. |
| 1:06.2 | So it seems, in my opinion, this is what's animating all this hysteria around immigration. |
| 1:12.9 | But let's check in with Julio Rivera, the editorial director of Reactory Times, contributor |
| 1:17.4 | to Newsmax, the American thinker in town hall.com, Reactory Times.com is the website and |
| 1:23.0 | his Twitter handle is, oh, yeah, it's Julio. |
| 1:25.8 | So why do Republicans support Trump and his cronies, white supremacist opposition immigration |
| 1:30.4 | for? |
| 1:31.4 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:32.4 | Again, with the white supremacy and with the whole race thing. |
| 1:34.7 | Listen, first off your point when you were bringing up, you have to dip all the way back |
| 1:38.6 | to legislation from 1924 and 1965 and all of these disconspirate, so tutorial sort of |
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