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1924. As this article explains, the National Origins Act of 1924 further cut immigration by limiting admissions from any one nation to 2% of its figure in the 1890 US Census. The bill's sponsor felt no need to conceal the law's discriminatory intent -- to severely limit "less desirable" immigration from Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, and other southern and eastern European countries. In addition, the law barred virtually all immigration from Asia. |