Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, the Immigration Act of 1917 barred immigrants from a large part of the world loosely defined as “any country not owned by the U.S. adjacent to the continent of Asia.” In practice, the barred zone provision excluded immigrants from Afghanistan, t...
(1917–21) caused the exodus of 1.5 million opponents of communism. Between 1915 and 1923 more than 1 million Armenians left TurkishAsia Minor, and several hundred thousand Spanish loyalists fled to France in the wake of the 1936–39Spanish Civil War. When thePeople’s Republic of Chinawas ...
1917:Xenophobia reaches new highs on the eve of American involvement inWorld War I. TheImmigration Act of 1917establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries. May 1924:TheImmigration Act of 1924limits the number of immigrants allow...
Another immigration-related policy change during my sample period is the Immigration Act of 1917, also known as the Literacy Act. This legislation imposed literacy tests on new immigrants and curtailed new arrivals of certain types and from certain origins (principally from Asia). Given that assimil...
Why Was the 1986 Reform Act a Failure? The president couldn't have been much more mistaken. People on all sides of the immigration argument agree that the 1986Reform Actwas a failure: it didn't keep illegal workers out of the workplace, it didn’t deal with at least 2 million undocumen...
aWe conclude only that Exarchou has sustained his burden of establishing good moral character under 19(c) of the Immigration Act of 1917, former 8 U.S.C. 155(c), and is entitled to further consideration of his application. Whether any other factors may warrant the Service in not following...
In one key way, however, much had changed, for now the migrants were “illegal” and thus by definition “criminals” and “lawbreakers” who could be framed by politicians, pundits, and entrepreneurial bureaucrats as a grave threat to the nation (Massey et al. 2014). After 1965, ...
(1917)). Because the FLSA by its plain terms protects aliens working without authorization, the employers’ argument must fail unless the employers can point to a different statutory basis for limiting “the broadest definition that has ever been included in any one act,” 81 Cong. Rec. at ...
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Those who were entering the U.S. to avoid religious persecution from their country of origin did not have to pass this test. The literacy test that is part of the Immigration Act of 1917 included only a few languages available to immigrants. This meant that if their native ...