My Stance on Immigration and the 1924 Restriction Act

Quotas in and of themselves are not bad.  It is merely taking into account certain categories and assigning numbers to those categories based on quantifiable information.  As a basis for the 1924 Immigration Act, these quotas are assigned to nationalities.  These numbers were taken from a census and therefore created a quota system based on race.  Race and nationalities can get confusing, and it is hard to solidify the definition of a nationality based on racial background.  If I were president and certain people groups inside of my country were concerned about their populations dying off, I would not enact a law that prohibits the entry of other unrelated people groups.  The only approach I would use—and if it was deemed effective—would be to prohibit any immigration for at least a year.  Therefore, I am being discriminatory (as in the formal definition of the word; making a distinction between things.) However, I am not basing my discrimination against certain races but the human race, collectively. 

--When professors ask for my opinion, this is what they get.