HILD 7C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emergency Quota Act, Immigration Act Of 1924, Mexican Americans
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Immigration and the making of the mexican american generation (1920s-1930s: murrieta, california 2014 a. Immigration in the 1920s: legislative & legal measures instituted to manage incoming movement of people from south of border, legislative fiat b. i. 1917 immigration act b. i. 1. b. i. 2. b. i. 3. etc. b. i. 4. b. i. 5. b. i. 6. Outlawed people with disease, disabilities, prostitutes, insane people, head tax on people older than 16 years. Did not allow people who did not pay for their own ticket in. 1924 national origins act (johnson reid act) b. ii. 1. Provided a certain # of visas for immigrants b. ii. 2. a. Corresponded to 2% of that nation"s population in the u. s. b. ii. 3. Instituted by those who felt 1917 act wasn"t strict enough b. ii. 4. Violated gentleman"s agreement with japan that was supposed to facilitate japanese immigration b. ii. 5. Extended & made permanent emergency quota act b. ii. 6. Focused on asians mexicans were providing cheap labor for u. s: crossing the border c. i. Many crossed border because smuggling, banditry, fueling revolutionary forces c. ii.