Title: Restrictions on Immigration and Modern-Day Immigration
1Restrictions on Immigration and Modern-Day
Immigration
- You already know about the Chinese Exclusion
Act!!!
2Why Restrict Immigration?
- Poor Economy in US
- War
- Racism
- Overpopulation
- All these issues lead to official restrictions
on US Immigration
3Limiting Immigration key terms
- How do you limit the amount of immigrants
coming into a country? - Exclusions preventing a group from immigrating
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- Quotas a limit placed on the number allowed to
immigrate
4Chinese Exclusion Act
- Racism and the loss of jobs fuels Anti-Chinese
sentiment in California. - In response to California labor unions, the U.S.
government bans all Chinese laborers from
entering the country in 1892! - This and other Chinese restriction laws remain in
effect until 1965!
5Most notably
- The Gentlemans Agreement
- In California, Asian students attended segregated
schools. - Japan protests, so
- T. Roosevelt made a compromise with Japanese
officials.
According to the Gentlemans Agreement America
promised not to segregate Japanese students and
Japan promised not to send Japanese workers to
America
6Example of a Quota
- Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of
immigrants from each country. - Restricted immigration to 2 of each individual
countrys total based on the 1890 US Census. - IE. There were 200,000 Italian immigrants in the
US in 1890. Only 4,000 Italians were allowed
entry each year.
7Do These Quotas and Exclusions Apply to Other
Groups?
8What about Mexico?
- Starting in 1902 immigration from Mexico was
PROMOTED for jobs in the farming and mining
industries of the Southwest - how does that differ from today?
9Modern-Day Immigration Photos
10Reentering El Paso from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
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12Border of Nogales, AZ and Nogales, Mexico
13Nogales Border Fence on Left
14Barbed Wire
15Nogales Border Fence at End of Road
16Why is it there?