Trump's immigration crackdown may put doctors out of jobs
CNN →Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, said it "might take years for litigation to conclude," meaning the ban could remain in place for the duration of the Trump administration.
Dr. Eliot on Immigration: Restriction Would but Increase Scarcity of Labor
New York, Feb. 26--The further restriction of immigration would aggravate the scarcity of labor in the rural districts and the smaller cities, Dr. Charles W. Eliot says in letter to the Immigration League made public yesterday.
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Causes – Great Migration (African American)
Some factors pulled migrants to the north, such as labor shortages in northern factories brought about by World War I, resulting in thousands of jobs in steel mills, railroads, meatpacking plants, and the automobile industry. The pull of jobs in the north was strengthened by the efforts of labor agents sent by northern employers.
Wikipedia →Aftermath – Immigration Act of 1917
Almost immediately, the provisions of the law were challenged by southwestern businesses. US entry into World War I, a few months after the law's passage, prompted a waiver of the act's provisions on Mexican agricultural workers.
Wikipedia →Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act was formulated mainly in response to the large influx of Southern and Eastern Europeans and restricted their immigration to the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, it 'proved, in the long run, the most important turning-point in American immigration policy' because it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system.
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