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69-506: Enacted amid increasing public and political anxiety about the country's rapid social and demographic changes, the 1924 act supplanted earlier legislation by vastly reducing immigration from countries outside the Western Hemisphere: Immigrants from Asia were banned, and the total annual immigration quota for the rest of the world was capped at 165,000—an 80% reduction of the yearly average before 1914. The act temporarily reduced

138-686: A note that read: "Appealing to the American people". American businesses situated in Japan suffered the economic brunt of the legislation's repercussions, as the Japanese government subsequently increased tariffs on American trading by '100 per cent'. Passage of the Immigration Act has been credited with ending a growing democratic movement in Japan during this time period, and opening the door to Japanese militarist government control. According to David C. Atkinson, on

207-429: A political breakthrough in the adoption of scientific racism as a theoretical foundation for immigration policy. Due to the reliance upon eugenics in forming the policy, and growing public reception towards scientific racism as justification for restriction and racial stereotypes by 1924, the act has been seen as a piece of legislation that formalized the views of contemporary U.S. society. Historian Mae Ngai writes of

276-606: A survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy. 31. Whether blind (both eyes). 32. Whether deaf and dumb. Emanuel Celler Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888 – January 15, 1981) was an American Democratic politician from New York who represented parts of the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He served as

345-409: A trade. The other 15% went disproportionately to Eastern and Southern Europe. The act established preferences under the quota system for certain relatives of U.S. residents, including their unmarried children under 21, their parents, and spouses at least 21 and over. It also preferred immigrants at least 21 who were skilled in agriculture and their wives and dependent children under 16. Non-quota status

414-539: Is harassing our body politic," and "worse than Bolshevism ." During his first twenty-two years in Congress, 1923–1945, Celler's Brooklyn and Queens -based district was numbered as New York's 10th congressional district . Redistricting in 1944 put him into the 15th district from 1945 to 1953; from 1953 to 1963 his district was the 11th ; and for his final decade in the United States Congress , 1963–1973, it

483-554: The American Economic Journal. Farming, a sector of the economy highly reliant on migrant labor, shifted towards more capital-intensive forms of agriculture, whereas the mining industry, another immigrant-reliant industry, contracted. Looking back on the significance of the act, Harry Laughlin , the eugenicist who served as expert advisor to the House Committee on Immigration during the legislative process, praised it as

552-737: The Equal Rights Amendment . At the time, Celler was the most senior congressman ever to have been ousted in a primary. Even though Celler remained on the ballot as the candidate of the Liberal Party , he decided not to campaign and endorsed Holtzman in September. This allowed Holtzman to win the general election that November with 66% of the vote, versus 23% for her Republican opponent. Celler received 7%. In his final years, Celler remained busy, speaking about immigration and myriad other topics that occupied his half-century of public service. During

621-558: The Fourth Aliyah . In 1937, the Peel Commission noted the act spurred immigration levels not anticipated during the drafting of the 1922 Mandate for Palestine . The law was not modified to aid the flight of Jewish refugees in the 1930s or 1940s despite the rise of Nazi Germany . The quotas were adjusted to allow more Jewish refugees after World War II , but without increasing immigration overall. The act has been characterized as

690-585: The House of Representatives , the most vigorous of whom was freshman Brooklyn Representative Emanuel Celler , a Jewish American . Decades later, he pointed out the act's "startling discrimination against central, eastern and southern Europe." Proponents of the act sought to establish a distinct American identity by preserving its ethnic homogeneity. Reed told the Senate that earlier legislation "disregards entirely those of us who are interested in keeping American stock up to

759-462: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 , which revised it completely, was passed. The act provided that no alien ineligible to become a citizen could be admitted to the U.S. as an immigrant. That was aimed primarily at Japanese aliens, although they were not explicitly named in the act. It imposed fines on transportation companies who landed aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law . It defined

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828-562: The Ku Klux Klan . However, some proponents, such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL), welcomed the act for reducing cheap immigrant labor that would compete with local workers. Both public and Congressional opposition was minimal. In the wake of intense lobbying , it passed with strong congressional support. There were nine dissenting votes in the Senate and a handful of opponents in

897-401: The U.S. State Department and the Immigration and Naturalization Service . The act also mandated no alien to be allowed to enter the U.S. without a valid immigration visa issued by an American consular officer abroad. Consular officers were now allowed to issue visas to eligible applicants, but the number of visas to be issued by each consulate annually was limited, and no more than 10% of

966-524: The Watergate scandal of 1973–1974, he was a frequent guest on television and radio programs, discussing the hearings and the position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which he held for a record number of years. If not for his electoral loss a few months before, Celler, not Peter Rodino of New Jersey, would have been conducting the hearings . Celler was on good terms with Richard Nixon and in

1035-680: The dean of the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973. Celler chaired the House Committee on the Judiciary for eleven terms between 1949 and 1973 and was a leading advocate for the liberalization of immigration and naturalization laws, from his early stand against the Immigration Act of 1924 to his sponsorship of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . He ranks as the fifth longest-serving congressman in history and

1104-428: The " Yellow Peril ." Valentine S. McClatchy , the founder of The McClatchy Company and a leader of the anti-Japanese movement, argued, "They come here specifically and professedly for the purpose of colonizing and establishing here permanently the proud Yamato race ." He cites their supposed inability to assimilate to American culture and the economic threat that they posed to white businessmen and farmers. Opposing

1173-601: The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia . The number of immigrants entering the United States decreased for about a year from July 1919 to June 1920 but doubled in the year after that. With significant post-war activity U.S. Representative Albert Johnson , a eugenics advocate, and Senator David Reed were the two main architects of the act. They conceived the act as a bulwark against "a stream of alien blood"; it likewise found support among xenophobic and nativist groups such as

1242-518: The 1924 quota, only 4,000 per year were allowed since the 1890 quota counted only 182,580 Italians in the U.S. By contrast, the annual quota for Germany after the passage of the act was over 55,000 since German-born residents in 1890 numbered 2,784,894. Germany, Britain, and Ireland had the highest representation in 1890. The provisions of the act were so restrictive that in 1924 more Italians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, Portuguese, Romanians, Spaniards, Chinese, and Japanese left

1311-403: The 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 census . The 1910 census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation. This was the last census in which Texas did not record any top 50 largest cities by population, despite being the 5th most populous state at the time. It was also the first census in which all the top 50 largest cities had population over 100,000, and

1380-570: The Census and Department of Commerce estimated the National Origins of the White Population of the United States in 1920 in numbers, then calculated the percentage share each nationality made up. The National Origins Formula derived quotas by calculating the equivalent proportion of each nationality out of a total pool of 150,000 annual quota immigrants, with a minimum quota of 100. This formula

1449-500: The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 to the final quota year of 1965. The 1922 and 1925 systems based on dated census records of the foreign-born population were intended as temporary measures; the 1924 Act's National Origins Formula based on the 1920 census of the total U.S. population took effect on July 1, 1929. The act also established the "consular control system" of immigration, which divided responsibility for immigration between

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1518-675: The House of Representatives the Twenty-fifth Amendment , which clarifies an ambiguous provision of the Constitution regarding succession to the presidency . Also in 1965, he proposed and steered to passage the Hart-Celler Act , which eliminated national origins as a consideration for immigration. This was the culminating moment in Celler's 41-year fight to overcome restriction on immigration to

1587-449: The Japanese ambassador to the U.S., Masanao Hanihara , to write to Hughes: the manifest object of the [section barring Japanese immigrants] is to single out Japanese as a nation, stigmatizing them as unworthy and undesirable in the eyes of the American people. And yet the actual result of that particular provision, if the proposed bill becomes law as intended, would be only to exclude 146 Japanese per year.... I realize, as I believe you do,

1656-557: The Japanese government's perception of the act, "this indignity is seen as a turning point in the growing estrangement of the U.S. and Japan, which culminated in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ". The act's revised formula reduced total emigration from 357,803 between 1923 and 1924 to 164,667 between 1924 and 1925. The law's impact varied widely by country. Emigration from Great Britain and Ireland fell 19%, while emigration from Italy fell more than 90%. From 1901 to 1914, 2.9 million Italians immigrated, an average of 210,000 per year. Under

1725-687: The Republicans controlled the House), Celler was involved in drafting and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He worked closely with Rep. William Moore McCulloch of Ohio, the Ranking Member, to craft sufficient bipartisan support in the House to overwhelm Southern Democrat opposition in the Senate. In January 1965, Celler proposed in

1794-473: The U.S. according to the 1890 census . A more recent census existed, but at the behest of a eugenics subcommittee chaired by eugenicist Madison Grant , Congress used the 1890 one to increase immigrants from Northern and Western Europe and to decrease those from Eastern and Southern Europe. According to Commonweal , the act "relied on false nostalgia for a census that only seemed to depict a homogenous, Northern European–descended nation: in reality, 15 percent of

1863-675: The U.S. than arrived as immigrants. During World War II, the U.S. modified the act to set immigration quotas for their allies in China. The immigration quotas were eased in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and replaced in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . The law sharply curtailed emigration from countries that were previously host to the vast majority of the Jews in the U.S., almost 75% of whom emigrated from Russia alone. Because Eastern European immigration did not become substantial until

1932-636: The United States and the Holy See . In the 1940s, Celler opposed both the isolationists and the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration by forcefully advocating that the United States relax immigration laws on an emergency basis to rescue those fleeing the Holocaust . In 1943, he called President Roosevelt's immigration policy "cold and cruel" and blasted the "glacier-like attitude" of the State Department. Celler

2001-470: The United States based on national origin. The U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 directly evolved from Celler's Bill H.R. 17735. In June 1972, Celler (then the House of Representatives' most senior member) unexpectedly lost the Democratic primary to a somewhat more liberal Democrat, attorney Elizabeth Holtzman , who eked out a 635-vote victory over Celler, based chiefly on Celler's opposition to feminism and

2070-463: The United States in 1910, with an annual admission limit of 356,000 immigrants. This national origin system was structured to preserve the ethnic and religious identity of the United States by reducing immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, thereby excluding many Jews, Catholics, among others. Celler was vehemently opposed to the Johnson-Reed Act, which passed the isolationist Congress and

2139-1095: The United States, give the state or territory. If of foreign birth, give the country. 12. Place of birth of this Person. 13. Place of birth of Father of this person. 14. Place of birth of Mother of this person. CITIZENSHIP. 15. Year of immigration to the United States. 16. Whether naturalized or alien. 17. Whether able to speak English; or, if not, give language spoken. OCCUPATION. 18. Trade or profession of, or particular kind of work done by this person, as spinner, salesman, laborer , etc., 19. General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which this person works, as cotton mill, dry goods store, farm , etc. 20. Whether as employer, employee, or work on own account. If an employee – 21. Whether out of work on April 15, 1910. 22. Number of weeks out of work during year 1909. EDUCATION. 23. Whether able to read. 24. Whether able to write. 25. Attended school any time since September 1, 1909. OWNERSHIP OF HOME. 26. Owned or rented. 27. Owned free or mortgaged. 28. Farm or house. 29. Number of farm schedule. 30. Whether

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2208-438: The act, U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes said, "The legislation would seem to be quite unnecessary, even for the purpose for which it is devised." The act faced strong opposition from the Japanese government with which the U.S. government had maintained a cordial economic and political relationship. In Japan, the bill was called by some the "Japanese Exclusion" act. Japanese Foreign Minister Matsui Keishirō instructed

2277-492: The act, although both houses passed it by a veto-overriding two-thirds majority. The act was signed into law on May 24, 1924. The immigration act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration to the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula , which had been established in that year. In conjunction with the Immigration Act of 1917 , it governed American immigration policy until

2346-521: The annual quota of any nationality from 3% of their 1910 population , per the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, to 2% as recorded in the 1890 census ; a new quota was implemented in 1927, based on each nationality's share of the total U.S. population in the 1920 census , which would govern U.S. immigration policy until 1965. According to the Department of State, the purpose of the act was "to preserve

2415-526: The blood". U.S. immigration law was cited favorably by the framers of Nazi legislation due to its excluding "wholly foreign racial population masses". Footnotes Citations 1910 United States census The 1910 United States census , conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21 percent over

2484-498: The culmination of decades of intentional exclusion of Asian immigrants. The act had negative economic effects. Economists have argued that both innovation and employment were negatively affected by the restrictions. In a 2020 paper, the economists Petra Moser and Shmuel San demonstrated that the drastic reduction in immigration from Eastern and Southern European scientists led to fewer new patents, not only from immigrants but also from native-born scientists working in their fields. Even

2553-535: The early 1970s, Celler took a position in opposition to the women's Equal Rights Amendment . He was defeated in the 1972 primary by Elizabeth Holtzman , becoming the most senior Representative ever to lose a primary. Emanuel Celler was born on May 6, 1888, in Brooklyn , New York . His parents, Josephine (née Müller) and Henry H. Celler, were each the children of German immigrants. His paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Jewish ; his maternal grandfather

2622-464: The first census to occur after New York City 's five-borough amalgamation — Brooklyn was previously the 4th largest city in the United States on its own. The 1910 census was the first to use metropolitan districts, the predecessor to modern metropolitan statistical areas , which were defined for all cities with at least 200,000 people. Dr. Edward Dana Durand , then-head of the Bureau of Corporations ,

2691-610: The general immigrant head tax, excluded those deemed to be diseased or mentally unwell, and in light of intense lobbying by the Immigration Restriction League , introduced the literacy test for all new immigrants to prove their ability to read English. In the wake of the post–World War I recession , many Americans believed that bringing in more immigrants would worsen the unemployment rate . The First Red Scare of 1919–1921 had fueled fears of foreign radicals migrating to undermine American values and provoke an uprising like

2760-526: The government to prevent vertical mergers and conglomerate mergers which could limit competition. In 1951, Celler conducted hearings in the United States House Judiciary Committee to examine the anti-trust exemption granted to Major League Baseball (MLB). Celler entered the hearings believing that MLB needed laws to support the reserve clause. Star players, such as Lou Boudreau and Pee Wee Reese , indicated their support of

2829-552: The grave consequences which the enactment of the measure retaining that particular provision would inevitably bring upon the otherwise happy and mutually advantageous relations between our two countries. Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette , who did not vote on the bill, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, said that the bill would have to be revisioned "to make its operation simple, humane, and free from

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2898-460: The highest standard—that is, the people who were born here." He believed that immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, most of whom were Catholics or Jews, arrived sick and starving, were less capable of contributing to the American economy , and were unable to adapt to American culture . Eugenics was used as justification for the act's restriction of certain races or ethnicities of people to prevent

2967-404: The ideal of U.S. homogeneity." The 1924 act would define U.S. immigration policy for nearly three decades, until being substantially revised by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and ultimately replaced by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . The Naturalization Act of 1790 declared that only people of European or white descent were eligible for naturalization, but eligibility

3036-522: The late 19th century, the law's use of the population of the U.S. in 1890 as the basis for calculating quotas effectively made mass migration from Eastern Europe, where the vast majority of the Jewish diaspora lived at the time, impossible. In 1929, the quotas were adjusted to one-sixth of 1% of the 1920 census figures, and the overall immigration limit reduced to 150,000. The act was seen as causing many Jews to instead immigrate to mandatory Palestine , spurring

3105-553: The longest-serving member of either house of Congress in New York's history. Celler strongly supported help for Jewish refugees fleeing Europe during World War II . As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for all but two years between 1949 and 1973, he ushered the major civil rights legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Voting Rights Act of 1965 , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . In

3174-403: The mass migration of unskilled workers had been a spur to innovation, according to a paper by Kirk Doran and Chungeun Yoon, who found "using variation induced by 1920s quotas, which ended history's largest international migration" that "inventors in cities and industries exposed to fewer low-skilled immigrants applied for fewer patents." Nor did US-born workers benefit, according to a 2023 study in

3243-682: The matter to be settled in the federal judiciary of the United States . In 1953, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld MLB's anti-trust exemption and the reserve clause in Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. . In the early 1950s, the Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked Celler's patriotism. At the 1952 Democratic National Convention , Celler gave a speech in which he responded to Sen. McCarthy, saying: "Deliberately and calculatedly, McCarthyism has set before itself

3312-453: The misery and disappointment to which would-be immigrants are now subjected." Members of the Senate interpreted Hanihara's phrase "grave consequences" as a threat, which was used by hardliners of the bill to fuel both houses of Congress to vote for it. Because 1924 was an election year , and he was unable to form a compromise, President Calvin Coolidge declined to use his veto power to block

3381-415: The nation were immigrants in 1890." The 1890-based quotas were set to last until 1927, when they would be replaced by of a total annual quota of 150,000, proportional to the national origins figures from the 1920 census . However, this did little to diversify the nations from which immigrants came because the 1920 census did not include Blacks, Mulattos, and Asians as part of the American population used for

3450-424: The national origins quota system: At one level, the new immigration law differentiated Europeans according to nationality and ranked them in a hierarchy of desirability. At another level, the law constructed a White American race, in which persons of European descent shared a common Whiteness distinct from those deemed to be not White. In 1928, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler praised the act for banishing "strangers of

3519-507: The quota could be given out in any one month. Aliens were not able to leave their home countries before having a valid visa, as opposed to the old system of deporting them at ports of debarkation. That gave a double layer of protection to the border since if they were found to be inadmissible, immigrants could still be deported on arrival. The National Origins Act authorized the formation of the United States Border Patrol , which

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3588-430: The quotas. The lowest quota per country was 100 individuals, but even then only those eligible for citizenship could immigrate to the U.S. (i.e. only whites in China could immigrate). Establishing national origin quotas for the country proved to be a difficult task, and was not accepted and completed until 1929. The act gave 85% of the immigration quota to Northern and Western Europe and those who had an education or had

3657-427: The reserve clause. Minor league veteran Ross Horning testified about his experiences in baseball, which he said were more common for rank-and-file players. Cy Block , who appeared briefly in the major leagues, testified about his experiences and how the reserve clause prevented him from getting an extended trial in the major leagues. Celler's final report suggested that the Congress should take no action, allowing for

3726-512: The spread of perceived feeblemindedness in American society. Samuel Gompers , himself a Jewish immigrant from Britain and the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), supported the act because he opposed the cheap labor that immigration represented even though the act would sharply reduce Jewish immigration. Both the AFL and the Ku Klux Klan supported the act. Historian John Higham concludes: "Klan backing made no material difference. Congress

3795-470: The task of undermining the faith of the people in their Government. It has undertaken to sow suspicion everywhere, to set friend against friend and brother against brother. It deals in coercion and in intimidation, tying the hands of citizens and officials with the fear of the smear attack." As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1949 to 1973 (except for a break from 1953 to 1955 when

3864-520: The term "immigrant" and designated all other alien entries into the U.S. as "non-immigrant," or temporary visitors. It also established classes of admission for such non-immigrants. The act set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere , an 80% reduction from average before World War I, and barred immigrants from Asia, including Japan. However, the Philippines

3933-577: Was Catholic. After graduating from Boys High School in Brooklyn, Columbia College , and Columbia Law School , Celler was admitted to the New York bar in 1912. Celler was first elected to the House in 1922, defeating incumbent Republican Lester D. Volk . As a representative-elect in December 1922, Celler forcefully criticized the Second Ku Klux Klan as "a national menace," a "canker and disease that

4002-399: Was accorded to wives and unmarried children under 18 of U.S. citizens; natives of Western Hemisphere countries, with their families; non-immigrants; and certain others. Subsequent amendments eliminated certain elements of the law's discrimination against women , but this was not more fully achieved until 1952 . In 1927, the 1924 act was modified to use census data from 1920. The Bureau of

4071-544: Was also a Zionist who supported the recognition of Israel and requested the lifting of the American embargo imposed on both sides during the 1948 Palestine war . In 1950, he was the lead House sponsor of legislation to strengthen the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914; the bill, written with Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver , became the Celler-Kefauver Act , which closed key regulatory loopholes, empowering

4140-688: Was appointed in 1909 to oversee the census. $ 14 million were allocated to conduct the census. The 1910 census collected the following information: Full documentation for the 1910 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series . The column titles in the census form are as follows: LOCATION. Street, avenue, road, etc. House number (in cities or towns). 1. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation. 2. Number of family in order of visitation. 3. NAME of each person whose place of abode on April 15, 1910,

4209-474: Was back to its 1922 designation as the 10th. For his final campaign in 1972, the district had been renumbered as the 16th . Celler made his first important speech on the House floor during consideration of the Johnson–Reed Immigration Act of 1924 . Three years earlier, Congress had imposed a quota that limited immigration for persons of any nationality to 3 percent of that nationality present in

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4278-440: Was confident the bill would provide an indirect measure of reducing emigration from these countries, but after passing both houses of Congress, it was vetoed by President Grover Cleveland . Another proposal for immigration restriction was introduced again in 1909 by U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge . The Immigration Act of 1917 restricted immigration further in a variety of ways. It increased restrictions on Asian immigration, raised

4347-530: Was established two days after the act was passed, primarily to guard the Mexico–United States border . A $ 10 tax was imposed on Mexican immigrants, who were allowed to continue immigrating based on their perceived willingness to provide cheap labor. The act was seen in a negative light in Japan, causing resignations of ambassadors and protests. A citizen committed seppuku near the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo with

4416-618: Was expressing the will of the nation.". Lobbyists from the West Coast , where a majority of Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian immigrants had settled, were especially concerned with excluding Asian immigrants. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act had already slowed Chinese immigration, but as Japanese and – to a lesser degree – Korean and Filipino laborers began arriving and putting down roots in Western United States , an exclusionary movement formed in reaction to

4485-474: Was extended to people of African descent in the Naturalization Act of 1870 . Chinese laborers and Japanese people were barred from immigrating to the U.S. in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the (unenforced) Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 , respectively. A limitation on Eastern and Southern European immigration was first proposed in 1896 in the form of the literacy test bill. Henry Cabot Lodge

4554-623: Was in this family. Enter surname first, then the given name and middle initial, if any. Include every person living on April 15, 1910. Omit children born since April 15, 1910. RELATION. 4. Relationship of this person to the head of the family. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION. 5. Sex. 6. Color or race. 7. Age at last birthday. 8. Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced. 9. Number of years of present marriage. 10. Mother of how many children: Number born. 11. Mother of how many children: Number now living. NATIVITY. Place of birth of each person and parents of each person enumerated. If born in

4623-459: Was signed into law. Celler had found his cause and for the next four decades he vigorously spoke out in favor of eliminating the national origin quotas as a basis for immigration restriction. In July 1939, a strongly worded letter from Celler to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull helped set in motion an extremely prolonged process of 45 years that finally led in 1984, three years after Celler's death, to full, formal diplomatic relations between

4692-481: Was then a U.S. colony and so its citizens were U.S. nationals and could thus travel freely to the U.S. The act did not include China since it was already barred under the Chinese Exclusion Act. The 1924 act reduced the annual quota of any nationality from 3% of their 1910 population (as defined by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921) to 2% of the number of foreign-born persons of any nationality residing in

4761-501: Was used until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 adopted a simplified formula limiting each country to a flat quota of one-sixth of one percent of that nationality's 1920 population count, with a minimum quota of 100. Listed below are historical quotas on emigration from the Eastern Hemisphere , by country, as applied in given fiscal years ending June 30, calculated according to successive immigration laws and revisions from

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