Immigration In The 1920's Essay

Immigration as we all know is basically people that were not born in The United States would come here and law enforcement would consider them immigrants. Immigration is the movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or residethere, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. When people cross national borders during their migration, they are called migrants or immigrants from the perspective of the country which they enter. From the perspective of the country which they leave, they are called emigrant or outmigrant. Immigrants are motivated to leave their former …show more content…
Immigration expert and Republican Senator from Vermont William introduced a measure to create immigration quotas which he set at 3% of the total population of the foreign born of each nationality in the United States as recorded in the 1910 census. This put the total number of visas available each year to new immigrants at 350,000. The 1924 immigration Act also included a provision excluding from entry any alien who by virtue of race or nationality was ineligible for citizenship. Existing nationality laws dating from 1790 and 1870 excluded people of Asian lineage from naturalizing. As a result, the 1924 Act meant that even Asians prevented from immigrating, the Japanese in paticular would no longer be admitted to the United States. Many people in Japan found this law offensive, which was a violation of the Gentlemen’s Agreement. The Japanese government protested, but the law remained, resulting in an increase in existing tensions between the two nations. Despite the increased tensions, it appeared that the U.S congress had decided that preserving the racial composition of the country was more important than promoting good tuee with