🇺🇸 The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924

The explicit goal of the quotas was to rewind the country’s racial and ethnic mix to a time dominated by Western and Northern European immigration.

Reed, one of the lead sponsors, wrote in The New York Times that, with the bill’s passage, “The composition of our population will not change in the future decades in the same way in which it changed between 1885 and the outbreak of the World War.”

The United States would then become “a more homogeneous nation” and a “vastly better place to live in,” he added.

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