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Frank IBC on September 22, 2022 at 6:17 pm

Correct. The only restrictions on any country of origin before then had been China and Japan.

There was then no requirement to obtain permission to immigrate before you embarked in Southampton, Liverpool, Queenstown (now Cobh), Hamburg, Le Havre or St. Petersburg. You just showed up at Ellis Island (or Castle Clinton before 1890, and were quickly admitted following a medical test, then eligible for citizenship 7 years later.

And there were no national quotas for the countries of the Americas until 1965.

I laugh at these attempts to compare immigration in 2022 to immigration in 1920.

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