Immigration Restriction In The 1920's

In the 1920’s the pressure for extensive immigration restriction became tempting. Everyone feared immigrant radicalism, which outweighed the want for cheap labor. In 1921 a temporary law restricted immigrant from Europe to 357,000 per year. Congress officially limited Europeans immigrants to 150,000 per year three years after the first law was put into place. This law was put into place so the old immigrants would always outnumber the children of the new immigrants. In 1924 a law allowed an unlimited amount of immigration in the western hemisphere because California relied heavily on Mexican labor during certain seasons. The 1924 law implemented the entry of all those who were ineligible to claim citizenship. This law included the entire population of Asia even though we fought on the same side in World War …show more content…
The only Asian allowed to come to the United States was from the Philippines because the island was considered U.S. territory. In 1934 the United States established a law allowing on 50 Filipinos into the mainland each year but allowed them to continue to go to Hawaii to work as planation laborers. In 1924 the term illegal alien was established. They also enforced border patrol that policed the borders. In the early 1920’s the North and South agreed upon the law in which blacks were considered second-class citizens. President Harding believed that race was a world wide problem and not just a problem in the South. Harding thought the South found the solution to the world’s problem by taking out the word equality because the Republican Party during the Civil War era no longer existed. President Coolidge signed the immigration law in 1924. The immigration laws made them think about wanting to improve the condition of citizens and to help develop public policy. To set up public policies they utilized scientific methods. It disclosed that the past conclusions about superiority and inferiority of certain