http://xicanopwr.com/2006/03/the-hispanic-paradox/ because there are some things still worth fighting for Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://xicanopwr.com/2006/03/the-hispanic-paradox/comment-page-1/#comment-714 ¡Para Justicia y Libertad! » Blog Archive » Texas The Anti-Brown State Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:23:27 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2006/03/the-hispanic-paradox/#comment-714 [...] Historically, immigrants have been targets of environmentalists, some of whom linked with the eugenics movement of the early 20th century, Immigration Restriction League, to advocate for immigration controls. The eugenics movement considered undocumented immigrants and people of other non-white races to be biologically inferior to whites. The “Hispanic Paradox” is that the country’s political culture cannot function without scapegoating migrant laborers either. America’s fear of immigrants is not new. In the 1920s, Congress passed Immigration Act of 1924, which placed immigration quotas that barred Asians, Italians, Greeks, and Jews. These quota laws, passed after lobbying by the Ku Klux Klan, Immigration Restriction League and others, codified the eugenics theories of Madison Grant, whose work focused on the supposedly inferior skull sizes of Jews and other immigrants. [...] [...] Historically, immigrants have been targets of environmentalists, some of whom linked with the eugenics movement of the early 20th century, Immigration Restriction League, to advocate for immigration controls. The eugenics movement considered undocumented immigrants and people of other non-white races to be biologically inferior to whites. The “Hispanic Paradox” is that the country’s political culture cannot function without scapegoating migrant laborers either. America’s fear of immigrants is not new. In the 1920s, Congress passed Immigration Act of 1924, which placed immigration quotas that barred Asians, Italians, Greeks, and Jews. These quota laws, passed after lobbying by the Ku Klux Klan, Immigration Restriction League and others, codified the eugenics theories of Madison Grant, whose work focused on the supposedly inferior skull sizes of Jews and other immigrants. [...]

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