Rudy Canoza wrote:

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.

Really? So was a black man free to immigrate here and 'assimilate'?
How about a Chinese coolie laborer? How about an Indian from South
America? Or perhaps a Mexican?

Basically, only people who were 'free' to immigrate here were whites.

And you want to keep it that way.