5 Questions
What was the primary factor that hindered efforts to impose an immigration quota in the United States?
Opposition from local business organizations
In what year did United States consulates in Mexico begin to apply the literacy test more strictly?
1928
What was the primary reason behind the Bureau of Immigration's intensive raids to identify aliens liable for deportation?
To reduce relief expenditures and free jobs for native-born citizens
What action did the Los Angeles County welfare director take in January 1931 regarding Mexican immigrants?
Requested federal immigration officials to send a team to the city to supervise the deportation of Mexicans
What was the intended result of the presence of federal agents in Los Angeles, according to the county welfare director?
To scare many thousands of alien deportables out of the district
Explore the forced relocations of Mexican and Mexican Americans from the United States to Mexico in 1930, as well as the internment of Japanese Americans during the Great Depression. Learn about significant events in American history that are lesser-known to many.
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