Reminder that we do NOT live in "unprecedented" times.
On this day on Feb. 5, 1917, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to block “undesirable” immigrants. That meant a ban on Asian, Mexician, and Mediterranean migrants, literacy tests, new taxes, & excluded the poor, disabled, & criminalized.
Meanwhile white European migrants were welcomed with open arms & given land via Homestead Act.
This racist law was finally repealed in 1952.
Trump wants to revive this fascism. Do not let him.
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YET MILLIONS OF “WHITES” COULD NOT VOTE
in New York, if you didn't have an English sounding name EVEN IF YOU WERE A CITIZEN LIKE PUERTO RICANS, you had to take a test to vote.
the 1975 ammendment to the Voting Rights Act (Section 4e) banned linguistic discrimination, giving millions of migrants, including Europeans, the right to vote in their language.
it’s why section 4(e) is called THE 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICAN AMENDMENT. we shut that shit down after 80 years of lawsuits.
