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Nobody is claiming that there was a plan from the beginning to import a bunch of Latin American Catholics. To be fair, I do not think anyone involved in Hart-Celler fathomed the current trajectory of demographic change in the United States when that bill was made into law. And for that matter, the importance of that one bill is overstated. For example, Hart-Celler IIRC was actually the first bill to put any sort of restriction on immigration from Latin America. The immigration rate was very low before that (and Mexican immigrants had been forcibly deported in prior roundups). The idea of Whites being demographically eclipsed by Mexican immigrants would not have registered to have been remotely within the realm of possibility among lawmakers at the time. It was not a salient issue within the broader immigrant question.
One can say that the technical impact of the bill is overstated, but I agree with OP that the bill more importantly marked a symbolic shift in American culture and retcon of American history. This was one component of many other cultural shifts which were also influenced by Jews and directly or indirectly advanced Jewish interests, with Holocaust remembrance being another example as you have mentioned.
The assertion is not that influential Jews planned to import Latin American Catholics in particular. The assertion is that influential intellectual and cultural movements spearheaded by Jews pathologize normal and healthy ethnocentric behavior among Whites. And, they use those same institutions to protect their own ethnocentric tendencies from criticism and to invoke Gentile support for their own ethnic interests. This is the same dynamic that endures to this day:
So a White American average Joe who maybe has anxiety about the neighborhood he grew up in becoming Mexican or Haitian cannot be allowed to have any ethnocentric preferences that would be considered "hate" by Jews like David Myers. Something must be wrong with his brain if he wants his neighborhood or his country to remain White, and David Myers is going to do everything he can to fix them. Tikkun olam.
This is not a natural state. It did not happen on accident, either.
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