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Describe the impact of eugenics on US immigration.

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For example, in the United States, eugenicists were influential in passing the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 to halt the influx of Southeast European immigrants, who eugenicists viewed as immigrants "of the lower grades of intelligence" and immigrants "who are making excessive contribution to our feeble-minded

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