{"id":271,"date":"2026-06-05T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:38:35","slug":"the-assimilation-act-an-america-first-reappraisal-of-legal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"The ASSIMILATION Act: An America First Reappraisal of Legal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"All Americans should be alarmed by the scale and character of post-1965 legal mass immigration. After\u00a0two generations of closed borders and cultural cohesion, which\u00a0helped\u00a0to turn America into the world\u2019s leading superpower, our borders were\u00a0opened again\u00a0in 1965 by the\u00a0Hart-Celler Act.\u00a0Since then, our country has become progressively more diverse and therefore less American. While massive illegal immigration has imposed social and economic costs, deliberate, post-1965\u00a0legal<\/em>\u00a0mass immigration has played a significant role in the rapid demographic dispossession of Americans, wage stagnation for\u00a0native workers, fiscal strain on our welfare programs, and a\u00a0cultural erosion\u00a0of the American way of life. We need a correction.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles\u2019s\u00a0newly introduced ASSIMILATION Act (formally the\u00a0\u201cAmerican System for Sustainable Immigration and Mass Immigration Limitations Achieved Through Imposing Oversight Nationally Act\u201d) is, in our opinion, this substantive and long-overdue corrective.<\/p>\n

Introduced by\u00a0Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u00a0(R-Alabama) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) on May 14, 2026, the bill explicitly targets the Hart-Celler framework (the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments) that shifted U.S. policy away from national-origins preservation and prioritized chain migration and engineered diversity.<\/p>\n