Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article et,
Rudy Canoza wrote:


Of course it did. There have been limits on immigration for most of
the history of the US
False.
True.
No, it's false.


I put the reasons for my statement
Your ahistorical bull****.

Okay. If you can't defend your position by anything other than
invective and smoke,

You made a factually untrue statement that there have
been limits on immigration for most of the history of
the U.S. The first immigration law you cited, the
Immigration Act of 1891, rather obviously came in over
a century after the conclusion of the War of
Independence. It has now been a little more than a
century since that act, so in fact, what you showed is
that there has been some kind of limit placed on
immigration for about 50% of the duration of the
country. Of course, there was a century and a half of
unrestricted immigration to the colonies prior to the
War of Independence.