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...selectivity???meaning the native-born Americans' know-nothing inclination to exclude anyone unlike themselves?proved victorious. In 1921 a new immigration law introduced the principle of national quotas. They were based, somewhat inaccurately, on the different national groups in the U.S. in the 1890s. The figures were changed every few years, but the basic principle was clear in the quotas set for the British (about 34,000), Italians (3,800) and Chinese (105). Even in the Hitler era, when millions needed a sanctuary, the U.S. admitted only about 115,000 refugees from Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s...
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