Tichenor elaborates on this idea explaining that after World War II the “fact that it took twenty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany for Congress to remove these barriers in American immigration law speaks to how effectively Cold War nativists knitted together racial hierarchy and national security fears.” This is critical because it shows how the sense of national security and flow of immigration are intertwined in the minds of citizens. Which explains why the Johnson-Reed Act provided American citizens with a sense of security after the First World War. Essentially, nativists viewed immigrants as a danger to the safety of their environments and were therefore unlikely to support immigration reform. So, the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 was unfitting in the midst of a tense environment because it would perceivably weaken national
Tichenor elaborates on this idea explaining that after World War II the “fact that it took twenty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany for Congress to remove these barriers in American immigration law speaks to how effectively Cold War nativists knitted together racial hierarchy and national security fears.” This is critical because it shows how the sense of national security and flow of immigration are intertwined in the minds of citizens. Which explains why the Johnson-Reed Act provided American citizens with a sense of security after the First World War. Essentially, nativists viewed immigrants as a danger to the safety of their environments and were therefore unlikely to support immigration reform. So, the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 was unfitting in the midst of a tense environment because it would perceivably weaken national