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==Leftist/white supremacist origins==
==Leftist/white supremacist origins==
Long before Johnson–Reed was introduced, left-wing labor unions and their (proto-)progressive were the public face of American white supremacy, vociferously demanding minimum wage laws and immigration restrictions to prevent free-market economic competition from immigrants that would supposedly lower domestic wages. Bourgeois conservatives supported racial equality in tandem with modernization and right-wing, laissez-faire classical liberalism, by contrast. The Chinese Exclusion Act, endorsed by the American Federation of Labor (AFL),<ref>Syrios, Andrew (July 22, 2014). [https://mises.org/mises-daily/brief-history-progressivism A Brief History of Progressivism]. ''Mises Institute''. Retrieved March 12, 2024.</ref> was opposed by Northeastern conservative Republicans.
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/>
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/>