The 1920’s The 1920’s was a time of great change and differences. The people of the United States were just getting over their problems from the First World War, and all the German-American immigrants were not helping them one bit. The 1920’s was an era full of xenophobia and prejudice, especially in the areas of The Red Scare, The Immigration Restriction Act, the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, the country’s immigration hysteria, and the theory of Eugenics. The Red Scare came to be due to the U.S.’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…
Whether or not illegal immigrants should send back home is the major concern among the political debate. According to Michael Kinsley a political journalist who wrote in "Matters in America, one of the topics of "What 's the Big Deal About Immigration" mentioned in one of the article, “Kidding ourselves about immigration”. (page 226-229) raised interesting questions. What are we actually mad about?" The article indicated that the illegal immigrations characterized as "queue-jumping, taking away our…