Ogles Pushes for Repeal of 1965 Immigration Act, Return to 1924 Restrictions
GOP U.S. Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee went there.
On X, Ogles reposted a long message from Geiger Capital — also reposted by Donald Trump on Truth Social — that advocated returning to the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924, which strictly limited immigration to certain European countries and banned it from the Third World.
But Ogles went a step further. He explained what happened to the 1924 act: the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, known as Hart-Celler for Democratic Senator Peter Hart of Illinois and Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. That law opened the borders to the Third World.
Ogles strongly suggested that Hart-Celler must be repealed, by asking a rhetorical question about it. But from there, he continued posting about the baleful effects of immigration, two of which are the election of anti-American leftists such as far-left Somali refugee Ilhan Omar, a congresswoman from Somalia, and far-left Indian-Ugandan Zohran Mamdami, mayor-elect of New York.
The Thread
The thread began with the popular Geiger Capital’s X disquisition on the 1924 act.
“A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law The Immigration Act of 1924,” the post begins:
He stated plainly, “New arrivals should be limited to our own capacity to absorb them. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is now necessary to enact a policy of restricted immigration.”
The post noted that the bill passed with “overwhelming” bipartisan support, and included quotas, visas mandates, the Border Patrol, and “outright banned immigrants from certain countries that we viewed as incompatible with our culture.”
“It dramatically reduced the number of people coming into the country, and provided an opportunity for the recent ‘great wave’ of immigrants to assimilate,” the post continued:
By the 1940’s and 1950’s, American society thrived with a booming economy, rising middle class, common culture and limited immigration.
The Act was in place until 1965. Since then, we have experienced decades of *historic* immigration, both legal and illegal. Today we have higher levels of foreign-born than the early 1900’s by both raw number and percentage of population. This mass immigration has also included vastly different cultures than the mostly Europeans we accepted then. It’s obvious that we once again need to make a national policy shift, and it should be bipartisan.…
It’s time for another Immigration Act.
Trump reposted Geiger on Truth Social, after which Ogles stepped in with the obvious question.
“Should we repeal the Hart-Celler Immigration Act?” Ogles asked before noon on December 8:
The Hart-Celler Act scrapped the highly effective national-origins quota system and replaced it with an immigration regime built to favor third-world migration. It opened America’s doors to mass inflows from the developing world, permanently reshaping our nation’s demographics.
Because of Hart-Celler, foreign mafias, third-world ganglords, and communists took root in every major city.
Follow-Ups
But Ogles — lifetime Freedom Index rating 96 percent, with a 98 percent in the 118th Congress of 2023-24 — didn’t stop there.
Hours later, he returned to X with a shot at Mamdani.
“He is ‘standing up to ICE,’ aiding and abetting ILLEGALS evading law enforcement,” he wrote over a Libs of TikTok post of a Mamdani video. “We can Deport Mamdani today.”
“I’m with Byron,” he wrote over video of GOP Representative Byron Donalds of Florida.
Wrote Donalds:
I support the mass deportation of illegals.
I support ending H-1B & a visa overhaul.
I oppose pathways to citizenship & birthright citizenship.
Ogles struck twice today, first over a video of Nashville Councilwoman Delishia Porterfield, who claimed that “no one is illegal on stolen land built by stolen labor.”
“Tennessee is under attack from these leftists migrant lovers,” Ogles wrote:
They are lawless and the National Guard must be called in to clean up their mess.
Over video of a news report that claimed Ogles uttered “anti-Muslim attacks” on his podcast, Ogles was unrepentant. “Pandering to Muslims gave us Ilhan Omar and an unrecognizable Twin Cities,” he wrote:
I will not apologize for wanting my kids to grow up in a Christian Tennessee.
Ogles’ Immigration Bills
Ogles is a serious immigration restrictionist, and hopes to reverse the Biden “migrant” invasion of 2020-2024.
On January 3, before President Trump was inaugurated, he introduced the Send Them Back Act, which says that “an alien who entered the United States illegally on or since January 20, 2021, shall be subject to expedited removal, even if such alien indicated an intention to apply for asylum or a fear of persecution.”
In June, far-left Democrats targeted Ogles for censure because of X posts about Mamdani and far-left House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.
In June, he wrote that “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED.” Ogles posted the sentiment over a letter to U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi. Ogles asked Bondi to investigate whether Mamdani “should be subject to denaturalization proceedings under 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a) for possible willful misrepresentation or concealment of material facts during his naturalization process.” Mamdani became a citizen in 2018.
In July, Ogles called Jeffries a “Dollar Store Obama” who “has been hysterically rambling for over three and a half hours, whining about tax cuts for working Americans, bonuses for our brave law enforcement, and mass deportations of illegals. He’s still droning on like a broken record.”
The resolution failed. Undeterred, in October, Ogles wrote that “Dollar Store Obama just admitted Democrats are coordinating this shutdown. CORRUPT!”