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White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told Will Cain on Fox News that the truth nobody in the political establishment wants to face is that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 rewired America’s immigration system and its consequences still haunt us today. Miller was blunt: this law didn’t merely tweak policy, it overturned an old framework in ways Democrats and open-borders cheerleaders never honestly discussed.
What the 1965 “Hart‑Celler” law actually did was abolish the national‑origins quota system and replace it with a preference system based on family ties and supposed merit, a change sold as civil‑rights progress but never honestly debated for its long‑term effects. That choice reshuffled the sources of immigration away from Europe toward Asia, Africa, and Latin America and set the stage for the modern migration patterns we struggle with.
The results were predictable to anyone who studies immigration: the foreign‑born share of the population rose dramatically in the decades after 1965, and the ethnic composition of the country shifted in ways that have reshaped communities, labor markets, and politics. Over the long run, tens of millions of immigrants arrived and their children contributed a large share of America’s population growth, a transformation the country did not thoughtfully plan for or consent to.
Miller’s warning about assimilation and cultural cohesion is not fashionable on cable news, but it is a legitimate concern for any patriotic American who believes the nation should survive as a cohesive republic. When policy favors chain migration and de‑emphasizes assimilation, you get more porous cultural integration and less civic unity — outcomes liberals dismiss as “diversity” even when neighborhoods and schools strain under the weight.
The political class pretends the border crisis began with the latest administration, but the deeper truth is that decades of legal changes, incentives, and failed enforcement have compounded into the disaster we see now. Conservatives must stop playing defense and call out the entire historical arc of bad policy — from the dismantling of quotas to the embrace of policies that incentivize mass migration without regard for national interest.
So what’s the remedy? We should restore a preference system that prizes skilled, assimilable immigrants and that limits chain migration; we must close loopholes, secure the border, and resurrect a culture of assimilation and civic literacy. These are not radical ideas but common‑sense reforms that respect American sovereignty and the rule of law, the very principles the left has been willing to sacrifice for applause lines.
Americans who love their country should demand an honest conversation — the one Stephen Miller pushed for on Will Cain’s program — about how a single law can change a nation’s destiny for generations. It’s time for conservatives, patriots, and principled lawmakers to stop letting elites set policy by platitude and to start defending borders, culture, and American identity with clarity and courage.
