Immigration Act of 1924

Immigration Act of 1924, S., 68 Cong., XLII The Statutes at Large of the United States of America 153 (1924). Print.

In 1924, many people in America were worried that the immigrants were going to take over the country. They were worried that the immigration limit of three percent per an ethnicity that they had at the time wasn't enough to slow down the immigrant input in the country. Congress passed this act in order to limit the migration to two percent per an ethnicity. This Act is a primary source that shows how immigration was dealt with in America's past. One of the other things this Act did was allow the borders of Mexico and Canada to remain open-- even though it limited the immigration of Europeans and Asians.