The Immigration Act of 1917 created an "Asiatic Barred Zone," banning the entry of people from most Asian countries. Around the same time, immigrants from many European countries were coming to the ...
The Immigration Act of 1917 created an “Asiatic Barred Zone,” banning the entry of people from most Asian countries. Around the same time, immigrants from many European countries were coming ...
The Immigration Act of 1917 kept immigrants from South Asia (along with other parts of Asia belonging to what lawmakers termed a “Barred Zone”) from coming to America at all. Six years after ...