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  • jschveibinz 8 hours ago ago

    Interesting background data:

    All periods in U.S. history when immigration has been reduced or halted:

    The restriction/reduction periods were:

    1790s — racialized naturalization limits and alien deportation power.

    1875–1882 — first federal exclusion laws.

    1882–1943 — Chinese exclusion.

    1885–1907 — contract labor, pauper, disease, anarchist, and morality exclusions.

    1907–1924 — Japanese and broader Asian restrictions.

    1917–1965 — literacy test, Asiatic Barred Zone, national-origins quotas.

    1929–1945 — Depression-era administrative restriction and Mexican repatriation.

    1940s–1952 — wartime and Cold War ideological/security restrictions.

    1952–1965 — McCarran-Walter quota/security regime.

    1965–1978 — new worldwide and hemispheric caps despite ending national-origin discrimination.

    1980s — refugee ceilings, employer sanctions, unauthorized-labor enforcement.

    1990s — expanded detention, deportation, benefit restrictions, asylum limits.

    2001–2008 — post-9/11 security restrictions.

    2017–2020 — travel bans, refugee reductions, asylum restrictions, public-charge expansion.

    2020–2023 — COVID/Title 42 and visa-entry restrictions.

    2024 — Biden southern-border asylum/entry restrictions.

    2025–2026 — refugee-admissions suspension and expanded travel/visa restrictions.

    • lovich 8 hours ago ago

      Why was this interesting beyond historical trivia?

      Edit: actually nah, I’m not gonna wait for you to walk into this conclusion.

      You put a single presidents name down for these bans with Biden, which was in response to a global pandemic where every country was instituting travel restrictionsz

      But for trumps explicitly ideological Muslim ban you merely put

      > 2017–2020 — travel bans, refugee reductions, asylum restrictions, public-charge expansion.

      I am going to make the claim that you are pushing propaganda. If you had included the presidents for every section I wouldn’t think so.