History of Refugee Resettlement in America
Timeline of U.S. Laws and Policies Affecting Refugees
The following are milestones in the evolution of U.S. policies toward refugees over the last century. 1921 — The Emergency Quota Act establishes the first national origins quota system on immigration to the United States. The system permits no more than 3 percent of the number of foreign-born residents of a nationality who were living in the United States in 1910. 1924 — The Immigration Act of 1924, the first permanent limitation on immigration, establishes the “national origins quota system,” setting annual immigration quotas at 2 percent of the number of persons of a given nationality residing in the United…
