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Feb 16, 2021 · The Immigration Act of 1917 banned all immigration to the United States from British India, most of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. The Act was spurred by the isolationist movement seeking to prevent the United States from becoming involved in World War I.
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On August 2, 2017, Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) introduced a bill to modify the country's immigration system, the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act. The bill would move away from the system of awarding visas based on various categories of employment and instead implement a points-based system.
Summary. This law is best known for its creation of a “barred zone” extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia from which no persons were allowed to enter the United States.
The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone.
Feb 5, 2017 · The Immigration Act of 1917, also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, prohibited immigration from any country that was on or adjacent to Asia but was "not owned by the U.S.," according to a...
Dec 21, 2018 · The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries.
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Nov 16, 2020 · The Immigration Act of 1917 was the second law, after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, aimed at significantly restricting immigration to the United States. The Act increased the restrictions already in place following the Chinese Inclusion Act and added additional, new restrictions.
