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Feb 9, 2010 · With more than a two-thirds majority, Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the previous week and passes the Immigration Act of 1917. The law required a literacy test for ...
Aug 24, 2018 · Corbis/Getty Images. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and ...
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.
Aug 12, 2019 · Drew Angerer/Getty Images. When the U.S. Congress passed—and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law—the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the move was largely seen as symbolic ...
At head of title: U.S. Department of Labor. James J. Davis, secretary. Bureau of Immigration, W.W. Husband, commissioner general. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
February 5, 1917. The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill (H. R. 10384) entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the ...
The 1921 Emergency Quota Act had been so effective in reducing immigration that Congress hastened to enact the quota system permanently. This Act set its quotas to 2 percent of resident populations counted in the 1890 census, capping overall immigration at 150,000 per year. With a few exemptions, such as specialized employment, education, or ...
