Immigration restriction

Eugenical News, IX 2 (Feb. 1924), p. 21 New York Times, Jan. 7, 1924, p. 8. Celts often became honorary Nordics in this formulation, as for instance, when the Immigration Restriction League s John Langley averred, Thirty or forty years ago most of the newcomers were Irish, Germans, and Scandina-... 

There is some talk among politicians in the Bush administration about broad measures to restrict and control immigration of aliens who have no love or respect for the United States, and have a record to prove it. The central question seems to be, will our federal government respond with security arrangements to keep the terrorists out and be accountable for the success of such methods. Is our federal government actually aware that a whole new... 

On the draft riots, see below. Henry Cabot Lodge, The Restriction of Immigration, North American Review vol. 152 (1891), pp. 30-31, 32, 35 Congressional Record, vol. 65, part 6, p. 5923 Salyer, Laws Harsh as Tigers, p. 124. 

James Russell Lowell, Democracy [1884], in Essays, Poems, and Letters (New York Odyssey, 1948), p. 147 Francis Walker, Restriction of Immigration, Atlantic Monthly, June 1896, p. 828. 

Small businessmen also reaped dollars from the newcomers, and as late as 1930 they fought all attempts to restrict Mexican immigration. Said one Los Angeles shopkeeper ... 

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