mianfei
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« on: February 24, 2018, 05:54:34 AM » |
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« edited: February 25, 2018, 07:43:28 PM by mianfei »
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A couple of days ago, I was reading a book titled Debating American Identity: Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration and discovered by accident that Mexicans gained many loopholes in the Immigration Act of 1924.
Chapter 5 of the book points out that if the quotas for Mexican immigrants had been decided the same way as they were for European nationalities, then only between 1,500 and 2,000 Mexicans would have been allowed per annum, vis-à-vis 60,000 who actually immigrated each year during the latter half of the 1920s. This chapter pointed out that southwestern growers in the Colorado and San Joaquin basins preferred Mexicans to alternative labor sources (African-Americans or Filipinos or Puerto Ricans) because they did not have to be permanently cared for and would supposedly return to Mexico when their labor was not needed – although as I have mentioned large numbers of Mexicans did settle permanently in the Southwest.
What do you imagine would the effect on future US political and demographic development of restricting Mexican immigration as European immigration was?
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