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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.
AN ACT. To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 176; 8 U.S.C. 1151) be amended to read as follows:
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 ...
May 8, 2019 · On what immigration was like at the turn of the 20th century, before the Immigration Act of 1924 . Ellis Island opens in 1892 and within a few years it becomes one of the busiest port spots ...
May 15, 2024 · The Immigration Act of 1924 shaped the U.S. population over the course of the 20th century, greatly restricting immigration and ensuring that arriving immigrants were mostly from Northern and Western Europe. The century-old law was one of the most restrictive in U.S. history and helped create the framework for key provisions of the U.S. immigration system that remain in place a century later ...
Oct 29, 2009 · The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . Immigration plummeted during the global depression of the 1930s and World War II (1939-1945). Between 1930 and 1950, America’s foreign-born ...
The Immigration Act of 1919 demonstrated the growing importance of ethnic, cultural and political considerations in developing immigration policy. The economic factors that had weighed most heavily in policy development prior to the First World War became less significant in the uncertain social and economic climate of the postwar period.
