An Analysis Of Immigrants And Minorities In Not Like Us By Roger Daniels

In This Book Not like Us; Immigrants and minorities in America 1890-1924, which was written by Roger Daniels; a professor who taught History at the University of Cincinnati, focused on the 3 different groups, the Blacks, Immigrants, and Amerindians. He also focuses on the "Opposing forces" hostile to them, also seeing the different paradoxes of the supposed advancements that actually were conflicts in this period of time. This book covers everything from women's rights to the 1924 Act, so enjoy the ride.
Much of this book Not Like Us is more devoted mainly to the Blacks in America and the Amerindians. In Daniels analysis this material is key, but it has very little relevance/applicability to the immigration reformer. In a way this is disappointing

It holds an item that arguably one of the most fascinating and important topics in the book, it is news of a legislative idea of an Immigration moratorium. In December 1920, a representative by the name of Albert Johnson, a man considered to be the champion of Immigration reform, backed a moratorium bill that was introduced, talked about, and passed without a customary hearing, in a week. It won by a vote of "296 to 42 the house voted to halt all immigration for one year"(p.132). However, the Senate shelved the bill and then replaced it with what is known as the quota bill, which was funny enough vetoed by Woodrow Wilson in his last week of office. However the Senate wanted to bring it back, and pushed congress to enact the quota law of 1921, "But the Senate's desire to avoid the extremity of a moratorium pushed Congress to enact the quota law of 1921 - later made permanent by the 1924 Act - that kept immigration at a low level until 1965

In Daniels book Not like Us, he throws in a few surprises, such as he talks about Restrictionists. The interesting thing about Restrictionist that Daniel talks about is that they intended to limit western Hemisphere immigration in the 1924 Act, however, Southwestern legislators blocked the Westerns "'insisting that their regions needed Mexican agricultural labor"(p.136). In the 1920s and the 1930s there was a reduction of immigration levels, this wasn’t from all the restrictions but simply from the consular services use of its heavy executive power/authority to deny visa to Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) because they were more "Likely to become a public charge"(p.141). Honestly, this had a lot of support because "Even the leaders of many of the longer-established immigrant's groups supported the bill, as did many African-American leaders