Immigration law reviewed

June is “Immigrant Heritage Month.” Throughout the month we will be posting materials relating to immigration and immigrant cultures of NYC.

One hundred years ago today … The US took stock of the effect of the racist “Emergency Quota Act” it had passed a year earlier. (See our post about June 3, 1922.)

“Jews lead arrivals,” proclaimed the Herald.

– Jonathan Goldman, June 10, 1922 

TAGS: immigration, law, Jewish, quota