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In 1924, [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] [[Emanuel Celler]] stated, "We were afraid of foreigners; we distrusted them; we didn't like them. Under this act only some one hundred and fifty odd thousands would be permitted to enter the United States. If you were of Anglo-Saxon origin, you could have over two-thirds of the quota numbers allotted to your people. If you were Japanese, you could not come in at all. That, of course, had been true of the Chinese since 1880. If you were southern or eastern European, you could dribble in and remain on sufferance."<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAE1917A.htm</ref>
In 1924, [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] [[Emanuel Celler]] stated, "We were afraid of foreigners; we distrusted them; we didn't like them. Under this act only some one hundred and fifty odd thousands would be permitted to enter the United States. If you were of Anglo-Saxon origin, you could have over two-thirds of the quota numbers allotted to your people. If you were Japanese, you could not come in at all. That, of course, had been true of the Chinese since 1880. If you were southern or eastern European, you could dribble in and remain on sufferance."<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAE1917A.htm</ref>
==Leftist/white supremacist origins==
The U.S. House sponsor of the 1924 Immigration Act was Republican Albert Johnson, a "eugenics supporter and a national leader in demanding that the U.S. restrict most of its immigration to “Nordic” peoples."<ref name=johnsonkkkracist>Griffey, Trevor. [https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_politicians.htm Citizen Klan: Electoral Politics and the KKK in WA]. ''The Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project''. Retrieved March 12, 2024.</ref> Johnson, a self-proclaimed participator of the white supremacist Bellingham riots (perpetrated by working-class labor unionists of the Asiatic Exclusion League against ethnic immigrants), supported eugenics aligned with the viewpoints of the Second Ku Klux Klan whose top agenda was the "renomination and re-election of Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, so he can continue to be Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and fight for restricted immigration laws."<ref name=johnsonkkkracist/>
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