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Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota

"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, ...
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A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors

(THE CONVERSATION) One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 ...