Pointing out much of the same stuff I’ve been pointing out too:
“… The strange thing about the growth of Great Replacement thinking in this country is that it is not a very British phenomenon. Reece Jones, author of White Borders, traces its roots to the first US immigration laws of the 1870s onwards, as waves of Chinese, Japanese, Jewish and European migrants landed on American soil. These laws were based on fears, he points out, that white people would be replaced by the newcomers.
This soon blended with the work of American eugenicists. The Passing of the Great Race, a 1916 book by Madison Grant, a New York lawyer and eugenicist, was hugely influential, arguing that the “great race” of white people must be preserved by barring non-whites from America to avoid “mongrelisation”. The book was endorsed by presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge.
Hitler called Grant’s book his “bible” and developed plans for Germany to emulate America’s spartan immigration policy. Ever since 1875, the United States had been tightening its borders on an increasingly racialised basis, progressively barring Chinese, Japanese, “racially inferior” southern and eastern Europeans, and “Asiatics”. The future Führer’s crucial innovation, however, was to figure the Jews as the hidden hand behind non-white immigration.
Thus the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory was born…”.