Immigration

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Immigrant Family Looking at New York ...

Wishing to Repeal the Japanese Exclusion Act (Literary Digest, 1935) "With the California Council on Oriental Relations waging an eloquent campaign for repeal of the Japanese Exclusion Act, a quota-basis solution is suggested."

There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too (Ken Magazine, 1938) This 1938 magazine article can be filed in the "the more things change, the more they stay the same folder". It lists all the assorted means by which Mexicans have attempted to illegally cross over the Southern border, whether to smuggle others, import illegal drugs or for their own gratification. "One day up the road somewhere about Chula Vista, the speed cops bore down on a young Mexican driver who was singing loudly and twisting all over the highway." "He came out of his car fighting like a Sonoran javilina, conked one of the policemen and laid him out cold, drew a gun and would have killed the other one but for a snappy bit jiu jitsu application..." Click here to read an article about 1940s migrant farm workers.

The Anti-Asian Immigration Laws of 1924 (The Nation, 1927) "The Immigration Act of 1924 denied admission to the United States to wives of American citizens if these wives are of a race inelegible to citizenship. Hindus, Chinese and Japanese are ineligible. Hence the curious and cruel fact that while an Oriental merchant with his wife may enter America, the wedded wife of an American-born citizen is held at the coast for deportation."

Films to Promote Americanism (Touchstone Magazine, 1920) With the dream of instilling among the newcomers a sense of pride in being American, the Americanism Committee of the Motion Picture Industry was formed in 1920 in order to create films that would impart this sensation.

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