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> Milton Friedman: > > If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The USA didn’t have free immigration before 1914.
by basementcat 2y ago
> Milton Friedman:
> > If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited.
The USA didn’t have free immigration before 1914. The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed in 1882 and renewed in 1892 and 1902. Immigration from China continued to be banned until the Magnuson act of 1943 and Chinese-Americans were not permitted to own property in all jurisdictions until the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed in 1965.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson_Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...