Anti-Immigration Movement Source 3

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Citation:         Daniels, Roger. "Immigration Restriction." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 232-234. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 9 Feb. 2012.

Summary: This document is called “Immigration Restriction” and was written by Stanley Kutler in 2003. This piece discusses the issues surrounding immigration and the reasons for why some are against it. While there were no restrictions on immigration up until the year 1875, with the mass number of people who took advantage of the opportunity to migrate to the United States, people began to have a problem with the growing population. While some didn’t see the growing population as a huge threat, others wanted to take action right away to prevent Immigrants from coming into the United States anymore. The people who were apart of the Anti-Immigration Movement wanted to delay the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. by putting unfair taxation on them, and by created laws against their arrival. Members of this movement passed the Page Act of 1875, which prohibited criminals and prostitutes from migrating into the U.S., and made it more difficult for any oriental people to gain entry as well. Anti-Immigration workers attempted to stop Chinese immigration completely by trying to pass laws that banned them from entering the country. Later, the workers for this movement would pass an act called the Chinese Exclusion Act, which would stop most Chinese people from immigrating into the United States. This was known to be the official start of the Anti-Immigration Movement era. The two parts of this era are broken down into two parts. One was through the years 1882 to 1943, which was one of growing discrimination and restrictions on anyone trying to immigrate to the U.S. The second part is the years that follow 1943, because although immigration restriction has changed, it still exists greatly in our Country. The Anti-Immigration Movement was responsible for creating laws such as the taxation on Immigrants, which paid the states to supervise the immigrants that came in the country through their states.