How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy until this day - opinion
Johnson-Reed cemented a change in how America viewed immigration, from a policy of largely open borders to a new emphasis on “desirables” and “undesirables.”
Immigrants awaiting approval of their entry into the U. S. crowd the lunchroom for their noonday meal at Ellis Island, 1923. The next year the U.S. would adopt legislation severely restricting immigration.(photo credit: (Bettmann/Getty Images))ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
