Trump v. Barbara · ¶512

Wong Kim Ark benefited Chinese Americans, but its impact on other immigrants was limited. For decades after that decision, immigration remained largely unregulated. During World War I, however, the Federal Government began to limit the flow of immigrants. In 1917, Congress passed a law that excluded all Asians, implemented a literacy test, and included a long list of criteria for admission. Ch. 29, 39 Stat. 874–878. Later laws, most notably the discriminatory Immigration Act of 1924, continued this trend by imposing quotas based on immigrants’ country of origin. See ch. 190, 43 Stat. 153. From that time until the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, immigration, both legal and illegal, was light, and the number of Americans born abroad shrank from 13.9 million in 1920 (when the population was just over 100 million) to less than 10 million in the 1960s (when the…

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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