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Originally Posted by Lagergeld
Actually I think the MOST destructive would be the one(s) who came up with forced desegregation and the 1965 immigration act, but I dont know their names.
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Emanuel Celler was a native of Brooklyn and of mixed German Catholic and
Jewish heritage. Is Emanuel a German Name?
In the 1940s, Celler opposed both the isolationists and the Roosevelt administration by
forcefully advocating that the United States relax immigration laws on an emergency basis
to rescue those fleeing the Holocaust.
As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the 1960s,
Celler was involved in drafting and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Voting Rights Act.
In January 1965, Celler proposed in the House the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which clarifies an ambiguous provision of the Constitution regarding succession to the presidency.
Also in 1965, he proposed and steered to passage the Hart-Celler Act which
eliminated national origins as a consideration for immigration. This was the culminating moment in Celler's 41-year fight to overcome restriction on immigration to the United States based on national origin.
Today, nearly
75 percent of American Jews descend from immigrants from Eastern Europe. In this season in which we celebrate the ancient Hebrews' exodus to freedom, it is fitting to recall
Emanuel Celler's efforts to make America a promised land for Jewish immigrants, and for all victims of persecution.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...hy/Celler.html