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An 8 page discussion of the deep seated discrimination which characterized American immigration policies during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Immigrants from different regions of the world were regarded quite differently from one another in terms of whether they would be welcomed into the U.S. Many became the targets of many injustices both unofficially and officially through the biased immigration laws which were put into place. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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File: AM2_PPimmWWr.rtf
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Reimers, Americans wanted to restrict immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Immigration
in this country has varied over our history according to a number of factors. In the early years of the twentieth century much of our immigration policy was based
on prejudicial views. According to Professor David M. Reimers of New York University it wasnt until the early 1920s that widespread immigration laws were enacted yet Americans had been
excluding certain immigrants for approximately half a century (Hay, 2000). Reimers points to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1887 and the so-called Gentlemans Agreement of 1907 (which effectively ended
Japanese immigration) as evidence of the prejudice which existed in American immigration policy during this early time (Hay, 2001). Basically Americans wanted to restrict immigration for two reasons:
1. They feared that the new arrivals would be a threat to the country as a whole or to them individually and 2. They misunderstood the new arrivals
because they were so different. More often than not anti-immigration sentiment revolved around a potential immigrants race or religion (Hay, 2001). Sometimes, however, they were simply viewed as
a criminal element or as a political radical (Hay, 2001). Consequently, American immigration policy in the early twentieth century was quite restrictive.
While our immigration ideology that was in play at this time purported us as opening our arms to those most in need our policies and law were not
quite that open. While immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia viewed the United States as an answer to the impoverishment they faced in their home country, many of these
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