It was brought up that we restricted Europeans in the 1920s. It turns out, we cut the number of southern and eastern Europeans but upped the western Europeans.
Another change to the quota altered the basis of the quota calculations. The quota had been based on the number of people born outside of the United States, or the number of immigrants in the United States. The new law traced the origins of the whole of the U.S. population, including natural-born citizens. The new quota calculations included large numbers of people of British descent whose families had long resided in the United States. As a result, the percentage of visas available to individuals from the British Isles and Western Europe increased, but newer immigration from other areas like Southern and Eastern Europe was limited.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act
It was brought up that we restricted Europeans in the 1920s. It turns out, we cut the number of southern and eastern Europeans but upped the western Europeans.
Another change to the quota altered the basis of the quota calculations. The quota had been based on the number of people born outside of the United States, or the number of immigrants in the United States. The new law traced the origins of the whole of the U.S. population, including natural-born citizens. The new quota calculations included large numbers of people of British descent whose families had long resided in the United States. As a result, the percentage of visas available to individuals from the British Isles and Western Europe increased, but newer immigration from other areas like Southern and Eastern Europe was limited.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act
Hard to believe that the union survived & prospered wi such a lack of diversity…
The President issues two new Executive Orders to change the law. Trump executive orders restrict birthright citizenship, birth tourism