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Why did the government step in with new laws that put quotas on the number of immigrants that would be allowed into the U.S. each year?

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That all I know.

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The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) ... The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.

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