A race-based standard doesn't do anything - either it's unnecessary if the migrants' good moral character immunises them against the left's identity politics, or you merely buy time while the enemy reorients itself to attack a new fault line in the white identity. Introduce a White America migration policy and I guarantee you'll see a sudden interest in the persecution of Irish Catholics by English Protestants.
The Immigration Act of 1907 allowed the president to make an agreement with Japan to limit the number of Japanese immigrants. The law also barred the feebleminded, those with physical or mental defects, those suffering from tuberculosis, children under 16 without parents, and women entering for "immoral purposes."
A race-based standard doesn't do anything - either it's unnecessary if the migrants' good moral character immunises them against the left's identity politics, or you merely buy time while the enemy reorients itself to attack a new fault line in the white identity. Introduce a White America migration policy and I guarantee you'll see a sudden interest in the persecution of Irish Catholics by English Protestants.
1907 called and thinks it worked out great.