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In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political refugees had special status. Numerical restrictions ended in 1965. In recent years, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States have come from Asia and Central America (see Central American crisis).
The National Origins Formula had been established in the 1920s to preserve American homogeneity by promoting immigration from Western and Northern Europe. [2] [4] During the 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, this approach increasingly came under attack for being racially discriminatory.
Total immigration in the decade of 1931 to 1940 was 528,000 averaging less than 53,000 a year. The Chinese exclusion laws were repealed in 1943. The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 ended discrimination against Filipino Americans and Indian Americans, who were accorded the right to naturalization, and allowed a quota of 100 immigrants per year.
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Many acts of Congress and executive actions relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United ...
The number increased to 620 in 1910, and the population reached 2,650 in 1920. One of the communities benefiting from this growth was Mason City, where the total population nearly doubled from ...
Legal immigration to the United States over time A naturalization ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts in 2007. As of 2018, approximately half of immigrants living in the United States are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. [122] Many Central Americans are fleeing because of desperate social and economic circumstances in their countries.
The law, and other policies that excluded immigration from certain regions, led to a decades-long shrink in America’s foreign born population before it was repealed in 1965 in favor of a more ...
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