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Tanner gonzales P-1 In the early 1960’s the United States wanted to reform immigration due to the civil rights movement. In the beginning America and every other country had a quota. What that meant was that each country was only allowed to have a certain amount of immigrants come into America at a certain time and this was a rule that was started in the 1920’s and due to the civil rights movement being about equality of all races many people hated the idea of a quota and thought that many people from many different countries should come to America whenever they wanted. Even former President John F. Kennedy was caught saying that the quota and reform was “Intolerable”. But after his death a new idea came to mind for immigration. The United States set up a system that not only abolished the quota but allowed relatives to become citizens and allowed those who had useful skills to stay in the United States and over a course of 30 years more that 18 million immigrants came to America. But fast forward 20 years from 1965 and you will get the Immigration Reform act of 1986. It was the United States way of saying we need to step up out boarder system. And ever since then we have not let many immigrants in. We had turned into a country who was keeping out and pushing away the very thing that made us what we were. On top on that take in the cultural impact of 9/11 and the rise of far right and far left political thinkers that we have in the white house as well as the congress and the senate. Those who stay true to the idea that immigrants are bad and they are only out to hurt us. That they don’t want a new life they just want to sell drugs and hurt American people. Then you have those who realize that we're a nation of immigrants, that the country we know and love was founded on the idea of equality for all, no matter who you were or what you were. The civil rights movement showed us just that. And look at us now, now we are xenophobic and afraid of anything that isn't naturally American. We have taken out cultural melting pot and diluted it. What this I am trying to say is that America, a country who has, from the very beginning, strived to accept all and allow everyone equal rights and we have taken that ideology and we are shrinking it, we are refining it so that only certain people can get in and if you are trying to get it you had better be ready to wait a long time.. Now is that they type of world you want to live in? The world has no borders. Long before man can and put his flag in the ground and called a land his everything lived in harmony. People, animals, everything came and went as it pleased. Now we have stopped that. Now we have set up a system that not only no longer allows that but we have called something "ours" that never really was.

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