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- Johnson-Reed Immigration Act 1924
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The 1924 Immigration Act extended the "national origins" quota system, initially established in the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The quota system severely limited immigration, capping it at 150,000 a year. It barred "aliens ineligible for citizenship" altogether. As all other Asian countries had been explicitly banned through previous legislation it only offically applied to the Japanese. The Quota System was the primary means of deterring immigration until 1965, and was used to shape immigration around a favored population.
