Dale Partridge - October 26, 2026


America's White Immigration Quotas to our Third-World Flood

This is Coming for America

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00:00:00.000 Imagine a world-class orchestra, and it's spent years, decades, learning how to play together.
00:00:06.680 The musicians share the same style, timing, and tradition. Now imagine that over a few years,
00:00:12.320 the conductor starts replacing large sections of the orchestra piece by piece with random musicians
00:00:18.600 trained in entirely different traditions and rhythms and musical systems, all while telling
00:00:23.800 everybody that the symphony will sound exactly the same. But every musician knows that if you
00:00:30.440 rapidly change the composition of the orchestra, the harmony weakens. The timing collapses. The
00:00:35.780 musicians no longer move together as one body. You begin to hear confusion where there was once
00:00:41.300 unity. And what was once an incredible orchestra is now chaotic. This is what has happened to
00:00:47.580 America over the past 60 years. Now, historically, American immigration itself was not heavily 0.98
00:00:54.180 monitored. Citizenship was really the focus. It was naturalization. It was not immigration.
00:01:01.480 From 1790 to 1868, the national focus was far more concerned with making citizens,
00:01:08.740 not necessarily people who came to this particular land. If you could make it here,
00:01:13.060 that was one issue. But if you were a citizen, that was a different issue.
00:01:17.920 At America's first Congress in 1790, the Naturalization Act established that citizenship
00:01:23.500 was limited to, as we know, free white persons of good character. And these people had to have 0.94
00:01:29.500 lived in the country for at least two years. In other words, almost anyone could physically
00:01:34.300 migrate to America. But again, not everyone could become an American citizen. Even with
00:01:40.440 relatively open immigration, the population entering the country during that period remained
00:01:45.520 overwhelmingly European. I mean, travel across the Atlantic, it was dangerous, it was expensive, 1.00
00:01:51.240 it was difficult, meaning that migration was largely limited to the people that were capable
00:01:55.280 of making that type of journey. And as we know, while Europeans had built massive, beautiful ships
00:02:01.960 to cross the ocean, other nations like sub-Saharan Africa, they had not yet even leveraged things
00:02:08.300 like the wheel or writing systems or a calendar. And so the primitiveness of other nations
00:02:14.220 naturally limited their immigration ability to America. So at this time, there was no
00:02:20.340 mass global migration, only a slow trickle of fellow Western Europeans. And this remained
00:02:27.540 the pattern until the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868, which established birthright
00:02:34.040 citizenship. Now, this amendment was originally intended to secure citizenship for the newly
00:02:40.580 freed slaves after the Civil War, but it fundamentally changed the relationship between
00:02:45.640 immigration and citizenship because by granting citizenship to nearly everyone who was born on
00:02:50.720 American soil, and what this did is it created an opportunity for more people wanting to be here and
00:02:57.600 have babies on this land. But we still did at this point in our immigration and naturalization
00:03:03.980 policies did discriminate. In 1875 and 1882, we passed the Page Act. We passed the Chinese
00:03:11.860 Exclusion Act. And these banned Asian immigration and most naturalizations because of their rapid 1.00
00:03:18.220 growth. And Asians came in and essentially, they had an unwillingness to adopt the culture of 0.99
00:03:25.840 American society, and they multiplied rapidly. In the 1850 consensus, 758 Chinese residents were 0.98
00:03:34.960 recorded out of a total U.S. population of about 23 million. Now, in 1860, there were 34,000.
00:03:43.560 This is 10 years, okay? 10 years. 34,933 Chinese residents recorded at that point. In 1870,
00:03:52.620 there were 63,199 Chinese residents. And in 1880, there were 105,465 Chinese residents.
00:04:04.120 Okay. This was like a 13,000% growth in 30 years. Now we're seeing actually similar trends to this
00:04:13.320 kind of immigration with the Muslim population today. In 1996, we had fewer than 1 million
00:04:19.400 Muslims, maybe even a half million Muslims in the United States. Today, we have approximately
00:04:23.280 five to seven million, depending on the record you look at, if it's illegal or illegals. 0.56
00:04:27.940 The problem is that we don't have the convictions or the courage to ban the people groups as we did
00:04:33.680 in the 1880s. Now, to kind of put this into perspective, between 1790 and 1900, approximately
00:04:41.100 26 million immigrants entered into the United States, and almost all of them were European.
00:04:47.560 that took place over 110 years. But between 2018 and 2024, that's just six years,
00:04:55.300 America absorbed an estimated 15 to 20 million immigrants. And this is, by the way, the overwhelming 1.00
00:05:02.080 majority of those people were from the third world. And that means that we have an immigration
00:05:06.700 rate 14 times greater than the national immigration rate that we experienced during the 19th century.
00:05:13.660 And so by the early 20th century, immigration levels had begun to rise dramatically.
00:05:21.800 So following the Industrial Revolution, there's economic upheaval in Europe and the disruption
00:05:28.160 surrounding World War I.
00:05:29.900 America experienced its first, what I would call, truly massive wave of modern immigration.
00:05:35.220 Now, this was around the time that Teddy Roosevelt gave his fiery series of speeches 0.88
00:05:38.620 against the hyphenated Americanism that was taking root among this new wave of immigrants, 0.74
00:05:43.180 who, again, were Europeans, but now they were Southern and Eastern European, Italians, Poles,
00:05:49.000 Slavs, et cetera. Now, many Americans became concerned that the nation could not assimilate
00:05:56.360 that kind of migration at such a rapid pace. So in response, Congress passed the Emergency Quota
00:06:02.640 Act in 1921, which was the first law in American history to place a strict number and limits on
00:06:09.700 actual immigration, not just naturalization. Now, the law capped the total annual immigration number
00:06:16.300 that's coming from outside of North and South America at roughly 358,000 people per year.
00:06:22.680 Now, it established a quota system limiting each nationality to 3% of the number of people from
00:06:28.920 that nation already living in the United States, according to the 1910 census. So let me explain
00:06:34.980 what I mean by that. If 1 million Italians were recorded in the 1910 census, only 3%, only 30%,
00:06:44.100 or 30,000 additional Italians could immigrate annually under that quota. If only 10,000 people
00:06:51.720 of another ethnicity were already present in America, then only 300 more from that nation
00:06:58.420 could enter in each year. So this not only limited the volume, but it also kept the national
00:07:03.860 uh let's say just the nation's current racial and ethnic proportions as they were and so just a few 0.68
00:07:11.000 years later congress concluded that even stronger measures were necessary it's awesome to think
00:07:17.280 about that we had a congress that was like you know what i know our strict immigration policy
00:07:22.000 was not enough let's go harder i mean it's just crazy to think about that now
00:07:27.020 but the result was the johnson reed act of 1924 some people know it about as the immigration act
00:07:33.360 of 1924. But this law established a permanent national origins quota system designed to
00:07:39.620 preserve America's existing demographic composition. Now, the quota was actually
00:07:44.120 reduced in 1924 from 3% to 2%. And the census baseline was moved from the 1910 census back to
00:07:52.960 the 1890 census, right? So this, this sharply reduced immigration from Southern and Eastern
00:07:58.400 European nations because their population in America had become much smaller or was much
00:08:04.500 smaller in 1890. So the law at this time did a few other things. It effectively prohibited
00:08:11.820 immigration from Asia altogether. The act also created the formal U.S. Border Patrol,
00:08:18.420 and it established the visa system requiring immigrants to obtain authorization from American
00:08:23.360 consulates abroad before entering into the country. So to give you just an idea of how strong
00:08:29.220 this limited non-European immigration, in 1924, 706,896 people immigrated to the United States.
00:08:38.400 And of those 700,000 immigrants, 693 of them were from the African continent. Okay. Today,
00:08:47.180 we have that many Africans coming every single day, okay? Ultimately, what I want you to notice 1.00
00:08:54.120 is that we used to act like a nation, okay? We had a national ethnic identity. We were a white
00:09:01.220 nation. We had no guilt about it. We even carried a strong degree of pride in who we were. Now,
00:09:07.580 our leaders understood that rapid immigration, even from somewhat different European populations,
00:09:13.180 could risk ethnic fragmentation. It could weaken social trust. It could change the familiarity of
00:09:19.700 the citizens and erode some degree of national identity. Now, this was America's immigration 1.00
00:09:25.100 policy for 50 years, all the way up until 1965.