Analysis Of The Oriental Exclusion Act Of 1924

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The Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 eventually superseded the Gentlemen’s Agreement and was quite possibly the most exclusionary immigration policy the the US had ever enacted. The Immigration Act of 1924, otherwise known as the Oriental Exclusion Act, was signed on July 1, 1924, banning all Asian immigrants into United States and effectively ending the first wave of Korean immigration until the end of World War II (Son I). The 1924 Immigration Act stemmed from nativists who petitioned for implementing “immigration restriction” as means of bottlenecking the influx of “undesirable foreigners” (Lee 134). The objective of this Act was to significantly decrease the inflow of “eastern and southern European immigrants” and outright banned Asian immigration

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