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The Yellow Peril Rises Again in the US

This year is the centenary of the passage in the United States of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US by national origin quotas providing visas to 2 percent of the number of people of each nationality in the country as of the 1890 national census. The act, which was about as white as a law could…

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