Also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, it established a quota system of 2 percent of the foreign born residents of the United States as of ... for 70 percent of the new arrivals. The second major wave of ...

Noted legal scholar Jerry Rishe shared a very interesting presentation with the Yiddish Culture Club about the Johnson-Reed ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

These words gain added significance when one realises that it is through the port of New York that a lot of immigrants from the ‘Old World ... “Let the terrorists among us be warned: If you overstay ...

A lot of them, recent immigrants ... [New Jersey and California lawmakers] Andy Kim and Mark DeSaulnier. If anybody is ...

In the US, Japanese immigrants’ adoption of Christianity could be a natural consequence of living in a predominantly ...

Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live ... restrict immigration, enforce sterilization and uphold other systemic inequalities. Stoddard attacked the United States’ immigration policies ...

which was reached in 1890. Those immigrants and their American-born children account for more than a quarter of the entire ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally and the danger he says that poor immigrants of color pose for the U.S. ...

The quotas provided immigration visas to 2% of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census ... A staff writer for The New Yorker, Blitzer ...

Trump 2.0 is Trump unleashed. That much we know, with the Republicans on track at the time of writing for a clean sweep that ...

European and Asian immigrants to the United States were deprived of carp and yearned to acquire ... the U.S. carp fishery was ...