This was the point of entry for most of the European immigrants. Business and financial interests defended unrestricted in-migration, viewing a surplus of cheap employment as necessary to industry and westward expansion. With that, immigrants worked for very little pay, doing many of the dangerous jobs, helping to push along the economic status of the United States. In the vicinity of 1900 and 1920 the country conceded more than 14.5 million foreigners. Worries over mass movement and its effect on the nation started to change Americans' generally open disposition toward migration. Congress reinforced national immigration laws with new personation in 1903 and 1907. In the interim, a Presidential Committal explored the reasons for enormous resettlement out of Southern and Eastern EEC and the Congressional Dillingham Commission contemplated
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These deputation reports affected the written work and entry of the Immigration Act of 1917. Among its different arrangements, the 1917 Act required that migrants have the capacity to
These deputation reports affected the written work and entry of the Immigration Act of 1917. Among its different arrangements, the 1917 Act required that migrants have the capacity to