Thursday, February 2, 2017

Rush Limbaugh says there was zero immigration into the US after 1920, but of course that wasn't true

Relative to other periods it was practically zero, in other words quite neglible.

Between 1930 and 1950, legal immigration never exceeded 250,000 a year, and plunged to 23,000+ in 1933 and 1943.

The worst presidential administration for legal immigration in the post-war is George Herbert Walker Bush's. In fiscal 1991 he let in over 1.8 million

You can examine the interactive chart, here.