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	Lower East Side Tenement Museum
		In 1924, America had effectively shut its "Golden Door." Fewer than 350,000 Europeans immigrated to America during the 1930s, and a high percentage of these were political refugees, particularly from nazi Germany and, at the end of the decade, occupied Europe.
		Not until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 was the quota system abolished and relatives of U.S. citizens exempted from most immigration restrictions.
		While continuing the discriminatory practices of the immigration laws of the previous three decades, there was the beginning of the shift toward an emphasis on family reunification and occupational skills.
	www.tenement.org /Encyclopedia/immigration_administration.htm (2218 words)

	Historical Documents and Speeches - The Immigration Act of 1924
		The Immigration Act of 1924 created a permanent quota system (that of 1921 was only temporary), reducing the 1921 annual quota from 358,000 to 164,000.
		The immigrant shall surrender his immigration visa to the immigration officer at the port of inspection, who shall at the time of inspection indorse on the immigration visa the date, the port of entry, and the name of the vessel, if any, on which the immigrant arrived.
		The immigration visa shall be transmitted forthwith by the immigration officer in charge at the port of inspection to the Department of Labor under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor.
	www.historicaldocuments.com /ImmigrationActof1924.htm (856 words)

	Bureau of Budget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Under the new act, however, immigration from the entire world, with the exception of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Repuh lic, the Canal Zone, and independent coun tries of Central and South America, is subject to quota limitations.
		The quota-area denominated "Arabian peninsula" consists of all territory except Muscat and Aden, situated in the portion of that peninsula and adjacent islands, to the southeast of Iraq, of Palestine with TransJordan, and of Egypt.
		GENERAL NOTE.—The immigration quotas assigned to the various countries and quota areas should not be regarded as having any political significance whatever or as involving recognition of new governments, or of new boundaries, or of transfers of territory except as the United States Government has already made such recognition in a formal and official manner....
	www.multieducator.com /Documents/Immigrationact1924.html (580 words)

	chen/Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Chapter 5
		By this act [marrying], her status was changed from that of a Chinese laborer to that of a wife of a native-born American....
		The District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in mid-October 1924 that Chiu Shee, as wife of an American citizen of Chinese descent, was not excluded by the Immigration Act of 1924.
		In Seattle, the branch office of the Bureau Resisting the New Immigration Act argued that the Immigration Act of 1924 was unreasonable and inhumane and conflicted with the existing treaty between the United States and China.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/chen/ch5.html (12739 words)

	History
		Indeed, fewer than 350,000 Europeans immigrated to America during the 1930s, and a high percentage of these were political refugees, particularly from nazi Germany and, at the end of the decade, occupied Europe.
		Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act-1996 Enacted to discourage illegal immigration, this act barred anyone who had been living illegally in the US for more than six months from returning for a period of 3-10 years.
		The Immigration and Refugee Act of 1975 was passed in response to the growing number of people fleeing Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the fall of these governments to Communism.
	www.tenement.org /immigrantexperience/history.htm (3282 words)

	Immigration Act of 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		President Coolidge signs the immigration act on the White House South Lawn along with appropriation bills for the Veterans Bureau.
		With the imposition of the 1924 quota, only 4,000 per year were allowed.
		The quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 (772 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies
		The central purpose of the administration's immigration bill is to once again undo discrimination and to revise the standards by which we choose potential Americans in order to be fairer to them and which will certainly be more beneficial to us.
		Another factor in intensifying the impact of immigration is a reduced rate of emigration — that is, more of today's newcomers stay for their whole lives, rather than returning to the old country after a few years.
		In addition, the act instituted a system to give preference (within the national origins quotas) to foreigners with education or skills, as well as relatives — this was the predecessor of today's preference system.
	www.cis.org /articles/1995/back395.html (3894 words)

	Discriminations: Race-Conscious Immigration Policy?
		That act, you will no doubt recall, came to be regarded as racist and at the urging of liberals was repealed by the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965.
		In fact, if the country applied the liberal conception of affirmative action to immigration policy, one of the first things that would be noticed is that immigrants from Mexico are heavily “overrepresented” and that a concern for “diversity” would lead us to restrict their numbers substantially.
		Immigration policy should be based on the needs of the United States, an approach that looks to a combination of factors such as what contribution prospective immigrants can make as well as humanitarian concerns about refugees, family unification, etc. It need not and should not take race, ethnicity, or national origin into account at all.
	www.discriminations.us /2006/05/raceconscious_immigration_poli.html (1105 words)

	immigration
		Immigration policy is a paradigmatic example of conflict of interest between ethnic groups because immigration policy influences the future demographic composition of the nation.
		By prescribing that immigration be restricted to 3% of the foreign born as of the 1890 census, the 1924 law prescribed an ethnic status quo approximating the 1920 census.
		The opposition to needed skills as the basis of immigration was consistent with the prolonged Jewish attempt to delay the passage of a literacy test as a criterion for immigration beginning in the late nineteenth century until a literacy test was finally passed in 1917.
	www.csulb.edu /~kmacd/books-immigration.html (16996 words)

	Immigration Restriction Act
		Immigration reform, sometimes known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, was prompted by the news that in the preceding 12 months more than 800,000 foreigners had entered the United States.
		Immigration from a specific nation was limited to three percent of that nation’s population living in the United States, as reported in the 1910 Federal Census.
		Act of 1917" means the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States"; (g) The term "immigration laws" includes such Act, this Act, and all laws...
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1368.html (507 words)

	American History Documents II
		A consular officer may, subject to the limitations provided in sections 2 and 9, issue an immigration visa to a non-quota immigrant as such upon satisfactory proof, under regulations prescribed under this Act, that the applicant is entitled to be regarded as a non-quota immigrant.
		(d) Section 32 of the Immigration Act of 1917 is repealed, but shall remain in force as to all vessels, their owners, agents, consignees, and masters, and as to all seamen, arriving in the United States prior to the enactment of this Act.
		In the case of immigration visas issued before July 1, 1924, the four-month period referred to in subdivision (c) of section 2 shall begin to run on July 1, 1924, instead of at the time of the issuance of the immigration visa.
	tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz /~calda/Documents/1920s/ImmigAct1924.html (2665 words)

	Immigration...Japanese: U.S. Mainland
		The turn of the century saw the beginning of a great twenty-five-year surge of immigration, in which more than 100,000 Japanese nationals arrived in the U.S., and during which many of the foundational institutions of the Japanese American community were established.
		Finally, the Immigration Act of 1924 imposed severe restrictions on all immigration from non-European countries, and effectively ended Japanese immigration, supposedly forever.
		For as long as this Act was in effect, it seemed that the first great generation of Japanese immigrants was also to be the last.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/japanese3.html (1125 words)

	Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first permanent limitation on immigration, established the “national origins quota system.” In conjunction with the Immigration Act of 1917, governed American immigration policy until 1952 (see the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952).
		Established the “consular control system” of immigration by mandating that no alien may be permitted entrance to the United States without an unexpired immigration visa issued by an American consular officer abroad.
		Introduced the provision that, as a rule, no alien ineligible to become a citizen shall be admitted to the United States as an immigrant.
	uscis.gov /graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/legishist/470.htm (278 words)

	1917 Immigration Act
		President Woodrow Wilson also objected to this clause in the 1917 Immigration Act but it was still passed by Congress.
		One is the effect upon the quality of our citizenship caused by the rapid introduction of this vast and practically unrestricted immigration, and the other, the effect of this immigration upon rates of wages and the standard of living among our working people.
		The passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 re
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAE1917A.htm (1006 words)

	Immigration Act of 1924
		During the Harding administration, a stop-gap immigration measure was passed by Congress in 1921 for the purpose of slowing the flood of immigrants entering the United States.
		IImmigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 created a permanent quota system (that of 1921 was only temporary), reducing the 1921 annual quota from 358,000 to 164,000.
		IImmigration Act of 1924 created a permanent quota system (that of 1921 was only temporary), reducing the 1921 annual quota from 358,000 to 164,000.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1398.html (622 words)

	Exclusion by the 1924 Immigration Act
		America must be kept American." In 1924, therefore, Congress passed an immigration act which reduced the quota for each country to 2 per cent of the number of that nationality living in the United States in 1890.
		The National Origins Act of 1924 cut quotas to 2 percent and made the base year 1890, when the proportion of "Nordics" in the American population had been much higher than in 1910.
		Immigration from southern and eastern Europe was reduced to a trickle.
	homepage3.nifty.com /ubiquitous/Japanese-Americans_E/Page05.htm (2442 words)

	In Focus: The Immigration Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Current policy is a reaction to the Immigration Act of 1924, which reduced the number of immigration visas and allocated them on the basis of national origin.
		Central to the raging immigration debate are differing evaluations of the rights of immigrants to be with their families, to find haven from political persecution, to seek a better standard of living, etc. and the rights of native-born citizens (and their government) to determine who lives, works, and benefits from public services in their country.
		The immigration debates of the late 19th and early 20th centuries anticipated contemporary alliances between self-interested capitalists and open-door idealists on the one side, and nativists and protectionists on the other.
	www.theodora.com /debate.html (2327 words)

	Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors: Control Immigration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The government has changed its immigration policy several times to maintain the delineation between legal and illegal immigration and to allow people from different parts of the world to move to the United States.
		The main tenet of the new system, borrowed from the Immigration Act of 1924, limited immigration from each quota area to a number equal to the number of American citizens with that national origin in 1920.
		In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy designed to nationalize all of the country’s permanent inhabitants and prevent illegal entrance in the future.
	www.brookings.edu /GS/CPS/50ge/endeavors/immigration.htm (815 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Fluctuating Immigration Policy And The Economy
		During the 1920’s while the Immigration act of 1924 was all but halting European and Asian immigration, thousands of Mexicans were allowed to cross the border without any trouble from the new anti-immigration legislation so that Mexicans could work seasonally in the fields.
		In 1924 the Federal Government sought to put a strangle hold on immigration and this was accomplished by passing the Immigration Act of 1924.
		If the Immigration Act of 1924 was applied to Mexicans, there would have been practically no Mexicans allowed into the United States due to fact that the vast majority of Mexicans are of the “Mestizo” type, that is half Indian and half Spanish.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/b9/keb165.shtml (1992 words)

	In Focus: The Immigration Debate
		Current policy is a reaction to the Immigration Act of 1924, which reduced the number of immigration visas and allocated them on the basis of national origin.
		Central to the raging immigration debate are differing evaluations of the rights of immigrants to be with their families, to find haven from political persecution, to seek a better standard of living, etc. and the rights of native-born citizens (and their government) to determine who lives, works, and benefits from public services in their country.
		The immigration debates of the late 19th and early 20th centuries anticipated contemporary alliances between self-interested capitalists and open-door idealists on the one side, and nativists and protectionists on the other.
	www.immigration-usa.com /debate.html (2342 words)

	ISAR - Rewriting Mental Testing History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In January 1924 Brigham, speaking before the luncheon of the National Republican Club, and in the company of Congressman Albert Johnson, the primary architect of the 1924 law, reiterated his book's racist conclusions.
		Their discussion of the Goddard paper failed to mention, however, that in a long discussion section Goddard explicitly related his findings to the issue of immigration restriction and concluded, despite Snyderman and Herrnstein's disclaimers, that "the intelligence of the average 'third class' immigrant is low, perhaps of moron grade".
		For example, Celler criticized the Immigration Committee for widely publicizing Laughlin's 1922 testimony, complaining that "verbatim parts and extracts from this vicious report are found in periodicals and magazines and newspaper articles all over the country, and so the errors and falsehoods of this report are permitted to spread".
	www.ferris.edu /isar/archives/mental.htm (5001 words)

	NOW. Society & Community. Immigration History \| PBS
		Americans are less negative about immigration than they have been in several years — at least according to a poll conducted in 2004 by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
		The study found that 41 percent of the public now says that legal immigration to the United States should be decreased — much lower than the 59 percent that CBS News and the NEW YORK TIMES found when they asked the same question in December 2001.
		After the 1924 Act, the annual quota for Italians was set at less than 4,000.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/immhistory.html (690 words)

	The McCarran-Walter Act (Print) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This necessitated the removal of previous bars to immigration from Asia, but the ethnic bias of the new system remained clear: 70 percent of all immigrant slots were allotted to natives of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany, most of which went unused.
		Although the Naturalization Act of 1870 granted the right of naturalization to “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent,” Chinese immigrants would be forced to wait until 1943 before obtaining the right to become citizens.
		The Immigration Act of 1965 replaced quotas based on national origin with a uniform annual cap on immigration of 20,000 per country.
	www.ailf.org /ipc/mccarranwalterprint.asp (1675 words)

	SparkNotes: The Great Depression (1920–1940): The Conservative Backlash: 1919–1929
		Three years later, Congress repealed the Emergency Quota Act and passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which changed each foreign country’s annual immigrant quota to 2 percent of the number of persons from that country who were living in the United States in 1890.
		In general, immigration had been a boon to the rapidly expanding U.S. economy during the nineteenth century, as immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and southern Europe had provided invaluable labor in city factories.
		The Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924, however, effectively slammed the door shut on the bulk of new immigrants.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/depression/section3.rhtml (1385 words)

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		The Act was designed to maintain the ethnic composition of 1924, and to prevent further infiltration by the newer ethnic groups.
		The act was directly related to the philosophy of the "100 Percent American." Particular immigrants were excluded because it was felt that they could never fit into a 100 Percent mold.
		They will also be able to explain the relationship between the Immigration Act of 1924, and the unit?s theme by relating to it from a particular immigrant group?s perspective.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/history0/Invimmact.html (1236 words)

	Houston Railway vs. United States- 1916
		Under the act of May, 1921, the quota area was limited to Europe, the Near East, Africa, and Australia.
		Under the new act, however, immigration from the entire world, with the exception of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Repuh lic, the Canal Zone, and independent coun tries of Central and South America, is subject to quota limitations.
		GENERAL NOTE.—The immigration quotas assigned to the various countries and quota areas should not be regarded as having any political significance whatever or as involving recognition of new governments, or of new boundaries, or of transfers of territory except as the United States Government has already made such recognition in a formal and official manner....
	www.multied.com /documents/Immigrationact1924.html (580 words)

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