How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy until this day.

[ShahdagMountains]

(JTA) — In May 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation, known as the Johnson-Reed Act, that severely restricted the number of immigrants by putting quotas on their country of origin, and completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

Among other things, the act brought to an end a historic migration of Jews to the United States, and set in place restrictions that would keep Jewish refugees out when the Nazis rose to power a decade later.

Jews weren’t the only targets of nativists who pressed for immigration quotas — the law drastically cut the number of Italians, Greeks and Eastern Europeans who could enter the country. Nor was the act unprecedented — in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act banning Chinese laborers, and in 1921 imposed an Emergency Quota Act putting a cap on European immigration.

But Johnson-Reed cemented a change in how America viewed immigration, from a policy of largely open borders to a new emphasis on “desirables” and “undesirables.” Its Senate sponsor, David Reed of Pennsylvania, wrote in the New York Times that the law’s goal was to make the United States a more “homogenous” country.

It set the terms for a debate that if anything has become more intense exactly 100 years later.

How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy to this day - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish scholars talk about the Johnson-Reed act, which ended an era of open borders

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[ShahdagMountains]

Immigrants awaiting approval of their entry into the U. S. crowd the lunchroom for their noonday meal at Ellis Island, 1923. The next year the U.S. would adopt legislation severely restricting immigration. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

 

[Mac-7]

Its Senate sponsor, David Reed of Pennsylvania, wrote in the New York Times that the law’s goal was to make the United States a more “homogenous” country.

That sounds bad, but arent race riots even worse?

 

[wamose]

(JTA) — In May 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation, known as the Johnson-Reed Act, that severely restricted the number of immigrants by putting quotas on their country of origin, and completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

Among other things, the act brought to an end a historic migration of Jews to the United States, and set in place restrictions that would keep Jewish refugees out when the Nazis rose to power a decade later.

Jews weren’t the only targets of nativists who pressed for immigration quotas — the law drastically cut the number of Italians, Greeks and Eastern Europeans who could enter the country. Nor was the act unprecedented — in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act banning Chinese laborers, and in 1921 imposed an Emergency Quota Act putting a cap on European immigration.

But Johnson-Reed cemented a change in how America viewed immigration, from a policy of largely open borders to a new emphasis on “desirables” and “undesirables.” Its Senate sponsor, David Reed of Pennsylvania, wrote in the New York Times that the law’s goal was to make the United States a more “homogenous” country.

It set the terms for a debate that if anything has become more intense exactly 100 years later.

How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy to this day - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish scholars talk about the Johnson-Reed act, which ended an era of open borders

www.jta.org

We wouldn't have half the trouble today if we were still a homogenous country like these laws endeavored to create. Diversity for diversities sake, SUCKS. Conflict is the main result of diversity. MAGA

 

[MarathonMike]

America's first priority is to it's citizens and national security. The Democrats not only threw the borders wide open, they have allowed a chemical attack on our citizens waged by China, Mexico and the Drug Cartels. We are still having Fentanyl poisoning deaths every day. Open Borders is insanity.