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2 days ago · Immigration Act of 1917 (loc.gov/) became the first widely enacted law that implemented a literacy test and restricted immigration from the geographically designated “Asiatic Barred Zone.” Loosely defined as “any country not owned by the U.S. adjacent to the continent of Asia,” the barred zone extended from parts of West Asia to Western ...
2 days ago · The Immigration Act of 1924 did not, of course, drop from the sky. It was the legislative triumph of several decades of nativist agitation and lobbying. The political history of the lead-up to the bill are instructive, then, both for historical context and for thinking about their afterlives in American politics.
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3 days ago · It shaped the U.S. immigration system and established racial quotas. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: One hundred years ago this week, the U.S. enacted a sweeping immigration law that changed the course of ...
5 days ago · The pause in immigration led to a half-century-long decline in the foreign-born share of the population, from a level that fluctuated between 13% and 15% of the nation’s inhabitants during the...
1 hour ago · Immigration reduces US deficits and increases our GDP. Despite all these issues, the Congressional Budget Office recently found that recent immigration will reduce deficits by $1 trillion and ...
5 days ago · Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced immigration from eastern and southern Europe and practically barred it from Asia. How the law did this, however, was somewhat subtle: a quota.
3 days ago · 100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation ...
