2016 IMMIGRATION ACT
I propose that Congress continue to establish immigration quotas based on the future welfare of the
American population and not based on the needs of foreign nationals.
Except by an act of Congress (such as the need for Medical Treatment not available anywhere else),
no person with a contagious disease or limiting physical disability, should be permitted to immigrate to
America.
Except by an act of Congress, no foreign national of a country that encourages or permits slavery or
discrimination against a person or persons because of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, or country of
origin, may be granted entry to America.
Except by an act of Congress, no citizen of a country that permits the punishment of death,
enslavement, whipping, castrating, harems or other penalties unless they convert to a particular religion shall
be permitted entry to America. This will include foreign politicians, students, brides, husbands, children,
employees and business owners.
All immigrants under 65 years of age shall be required to become conversant in English after living in
America for five years unless they have developed a physical or mental speech handicap.
(see: American Citizen’s Rights Act)
HISTORY
To begin with, it must be recognized that the very first immigrants to America were the explorers
seeking to plunder the wealth of the new land. The following inflow of “immigrants” included the civilized
nation’s criminals who were banished from their own countries. Except for slaves, there followed the influx of
people who came to America to seek more wealth and those seeking better living conditions than their own
country provided them. The vast majority of them came from the Western European nations.
The latter immigrants also came for another reason; to escape religious persecution. There were no
“Government Grants” or “charities” to provide assistance as we know of today. There were some minority
religious groups that did share and care for their members, but they were few and far between, and never
realized a significant increase in their number. As time passed, religious institutions became the main provider of
sustenance for the impoverished but as time passed, despite all of the hardships to be faced in the “new world”,
life in America became an attraction to the world.
I am not overlooking the periodic influx caused by tyrannical rulers, famine, religious crusades, and wars.
They too were instrumental in the influx of immigrants to America. Although many European nations sought to
claim America, it was England that finally prevailed and with it came England’s laws and taxes. In the eighteenth
century, the American colonist rose up against the English rule for a number of regulations incumbent in English
rule. Although there were numerous reasons for antipathy to English rule, the first overt revolt against it was
initiated when the British Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773 which virtually granted the Britain’s East India
Company a virtual monopoly over America’s tea trade.
When England’s three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor
IN 1773, Patriot Samuel Adams, with 60 members of his Sons of Liberty resistance group, raided the ships and
threw $18,000.00 worth of tea into the bay. This was the famous “Boston Tea Party.”
The English Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive
Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping,
established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution
in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops in their homes. The colonists subsequently called the
first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.
Under British rule, any citizen could be taken off the streets and made to serve in the British military,
particularly long terms in the navy. Citizens were even required to provide shelter for English soldiers in their
homes without any compensation and could be imprisoned without a trial for any kind of unsubstantiated
reason(s). Just speaking out against the Crown or protesting against certain taxes imposed solely to benefit the
British Crown brought harsh punishments.
These causes gave rise to the following Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and our Bill of
Rights.
The American Constitution, an act encouraging the most free and unencumbered existence the world
had ever known, was the genesis of the greatest immigration movement of modern times.
Another part of our immigration history was the introduction of slavery to America. This was not a desire
of Africans to come to America, but the forced import of African slaves. The establishment of large plantations in
the South led to a profitable commerce in cotton, sugar cane, rice and tobacco that required large numbers of
field workers. It was in this period that America entered into the slave trade.
Over eleven million slaves were shipped to the Americas with a half million purchased to work on United
States Southern plantations! Some estimate that as high as another two million slaves die enroute to the
Americas.
On January 1, 1863, American President Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Declaration
outlawing slavery in America. During the 1980’s, most European nations abolished slave markets and slavery.
Still, it would be almost another hundred years before native born Indians and Black and Asian citizens would be
given the right to vote and hold elective offices in America.
In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act ending Asian immigration and banning Asians, and
even their American born children, from becoming naturalized citizens. This Act was finally revoked in 1943.
Although slavery was abolished in America, it was not until 1924 that Congress passed an act granting all
native born Indians the possibility of suffrage. In 1956, Utah was the last state to give native born Indians the
right to vote!
Many Americans feel these restrictive Acts resulted in a subtle form of slavery.