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Sep 2, 2008 · Immigration Laws (Act of February 5, 1917): Rules of May 1, 1917 by United States , United States Bureau of Immigration. Publication date 1920 Publisher Govt. Print. Off.
The Immigration Act of 1891 centralized immigration enforcement authority in the federal government, overriding state governments’ previous responsibilities to carry out federal immigration laws. The Act also extended immigration inspections to land borders and created the Office of Superintendent of Immigration to supervise new immigration ...
On February 5, 1917, the US Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 overriding the veto of President Wilson. The act was the first legislation to limit immigrants from Europe. Its central provision required new immigrants to pass a literacy test. It also halted all immigration of Asia.
The McCarran-Walter Act replaced the Immigration Act of 1917 as the nation’s foundational immigration law (and it remains so today, as amended)… The law retained the numerical ceiling of 155,000 quota-immigrants per year based on the national origins formula of 1924, which was numerically more restrictive than previous policy in light of ...
The Act of March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten, amending the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States; the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States, except section thirty-four thereof ...
Prevailing pseudoscience deemed homosexuality a psychological ailment, and the Immigration Act of 1917 excluded homosexuals from immigrating to the U.S. based on their status as “persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority.” Until the early 1950s, prospective immigrants could be excluded or deported for engaging in homosexual activity.
The Repeal of Asian Exclusion. The United States has actively engaged in trade and commerce with Asian nations since the mid-19th century. Two years after Great Britain forced China to open its ports for trade in the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) following the Opium War, the United States secured concessions from the Qing government through the Treaty of Wanghia (Wangxia).
