This Michigan Senator Broke Immigration in America
Sen. Phil Hart was behind the law to let the most dysfunctional countries flood in and stay
Why is Dearborn a foreign outpost within Michigan, where Islamic calls to prayer ring out on loudspeakers and slain terrorists are mourned as “martyrs”?
Why is Detroit a welfare state, whose people are subject to radio commercials about personal injury lawyers and subprime loans for Dodge Chargers?
You can thank two Democrats for the fall of both cities: President Lyndon B. Johnson and Michigan’s own Phil Hart, the late senator who served from 1959 to 1976.
When people party at Detroit’s Hart Plaza, they give hardly a thought to the man it’s named for. But he played a big role in creating the Third World pipeline into America. Perhaps a park in Dearborn would better bear his name.
In October 1965, President Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, nicknamed the Hart-Celler Act after Hart and Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York.
Hart-Celler ended a decades-long slowdown of immigration, which started in the 1920s. But its big impact was opening immigration channels from the poorest, most dysfunctional countries into America.
Hart-Celler put a premium on “family unification” for immigrant arrivals. That’s a fancy way of saying chain migration: When one person comes over, 30 of their family members can follow.
And when those people have babies, those babies are American citizens. And a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling just solidified birthright citizenship as constitutional. The 1965 law changed the face of America, and it will take a U.S. Constitutional amendment to change it back.
On signing Hart-Celler, LBJ said that America was built by “a nation of strangers.” It wasn’t, not in 1492, 1619, or 1776. Nor was America a nation of strangers in 1965. But after 60 years of mass immigration, it sure is now.
Meanwhile in cities like Detroit, LBJ had a different plan for the black community.
If Third World families must be kept together on arrival, the black community needed to be torn asunder. Detroit is what it is because Democrats need Detroiters poor.
Welfare policies such as the “man in the house rule”—a family couldn’t get welfare if an able-bodied man lived in the home—forced mothers to choose between the presence of a man and the largesse of Uncle Sam. Too many chose the government.
Sixty years later, “teen takeovers” in Detroit and across America are the fruits of the manless matriarchy.
Detroit and Dearborn did not get this way organically. Both were led here by policymakers at the highest levels.
