In 1921, Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Quota Acts, a conscious choice of the American public to halt the 1880-1920 “Great Wave” of eastern and southern European immigration (which ...

A series of restrictive immigration laws that began with the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 culminated during this era with the National Origins Quota Act of 1924. The latter measure, passed by the ...

1924 - Immigration Quota Act excludes all aliens ineligible for citizenship (all Asians except Hawaiians and Filipinos) and allows entry of alien wives of Chinese merchants, but not alien wives of ...

Trump's administration is set to sign the Laken Riley Act into law, focusing on the detention and potential deportation of ...