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An 8 page discussion of the prejudicial tilt that characterized American immigration policies during this period. The author contends that while our ideology was one of providing refuge to the most needy of world citizens, our immigration policies were in actuality quite prejudicial. World War I only made this sense of prejudice even more vivid. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AM2_PPimmWWI.rtf
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why, according to David M. 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. 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. 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. Despite the well-known proclamation of:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". -Emma
Lazarus the proclamation found in the much quoted poem "The New Colossus" as well as
inscribed on the base of the Statute of Liberty, American immigration policy in the early twentieth century was quite restrictive. While the proclamation was descriptive of our immigration ideology
at that time, it diverged radically from our policies and law. Very simply American believed that immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe represented a threat to American society.
They believe that many of these immigrants were largely characterized by a criminal element. This coupled with the anti-Semitism which is so deeply rooted in world history translated into
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