Going on Offense Wins the Midterms
How Republicans Can Seize the Midterms by Attacking the Failed Hart-Celler Legacy In 1965, Congress inserted the camel’s nose under the tent. Lawmakers sold the Hart-Celler Act as a modest, humane tweak — ending national origins quotas while promising no major shift in America’s overall immigration numbers or cultural character. Sixty years later, the tent is overflowing. We now live with a record foreign-born population, sustained wage pressure on American workers, stalled assimilation in many communities, overburdened schools and housing, and growing public safety concerns. As I have documented in prior columns, this post-1965 system has systematically depressed wages for native-born…