Unless your brown parents control significant resource extraction operations back home. It being odd how racial and religious biases drop away when people show up with 10 figure net worths. In practice if not in strict legal theory the policy has always been Open Borders for WASPs. I am no expert on the tourist/worker/student visa system but lets just admit none of it is rigourously afforded against Brits even today. Once the balance of immigration started swinging to Southern and Eastern Europeans (who tended to be either browner or Papist or both) around the turn of the century the barriers started slapping into place. Of course most of those immigrants were from Northern Europe. But most everyone else just bought a ticket on a steamboat, often as not paid for or subsidized by a recruiter. There was no such thing as illegal immigration right through the 19th century.
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