Comments by "Leslie Paul Kovacs" (@lesliepaulkovacs6442) on "The Dead Boomer Mythology of Immigrant Exceptionalism" video.

  1. Actually, Immigration started to be curtailed in the 1920s. Case in Point. In the 1890s, my Maternal Great Grandfather brought his Family from Hungary to Eastern Ohio to work in the Coal Mines, and it was easy to come to America. Train rides across Europe, Ship across the Atlantic, more Trains to Ohio, you lived in the Company Town. BUT it was a Homogeneous community, made up of mostly same groups of Europeans from the same Country. Fast forward to the 1920s, and the Government begins Quotas and Bans on Immigration. And they're still in effect. In fact, my Father who fought in the Hungarian Revolution couldn't come to America until a literal Act of Congress was passed allowing the number of Hungarian Immigrants to come in to be raised up enormously. Then when he gets to the States, he had to stay in an Army Base in New Jersey until my Maternal (now Grandfather) was willing to sponsor Dad. That's where Mom met Dad, one thing led to another, and here I am. But unlike today, our Family FOLLOWED THE IMMIGRATION RULES OF THE TIME!
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