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A Century Later, Restrictive 1924 U.S. Immigration Law Has Reverberations in Immigration Debate
- from May 2024

The Immigration Act of 1924: "Its numerical limits on annual arrivals and use of national-origins quotas, aided by Great Depression-era restrictions, limited religious, ethnic, and racial diversity, and sharply reduced the size of the country’s foreign-born population for four decades."

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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/1924-us-immigration-act-history

A Century Later, Restrictive 1924 U.S. Immigration Law Has Reverberations in Immigration Debate

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. This article analyzes the effect and legacy of the 1924 law.

migrationpolicy.org