Immigration ban? We were there exactly 100 years ago today

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(CNN)President Donald Trump has actually dismissed as “absurd” a federal judge’s choice to stop his questionable executive order rejecting specific refugees and immigrants entry into the United States.

Many Americans are up in arms. In truth, keeping out desperate souls looking for entry into America has deep roots. On this day 100 years earlier, the United States passed the strictest migration law of its time: the Immigration Act of 1917.

The law limited the migration of “undesirables,” consisting of many individuals from the Middle East and Asia, through increased taxes, tests and straight-out restrictions.

Trump’s restriction, which has actually triggered across the country demonstrations and extensive condemnation , is strangely comparable– targeting a few of the exact same individuals and enforcing tests through “severe vetting,” inning accordance with observers.

Immigration ban? We were there exactly 100 years ago today

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The Immigration Act of 1917 was modified by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, likewise called the McCarran-Walter Act. The law eliminated racial limitations however kept quotas for areas and citizenships. It likewise developed a choice system that positioned greater worth on some citizenships and immigrants with particular labor abilities.

As for Trump’s executive order on migration, it was briefly stopped Friday by a federal judge. The Department of Homeland Security then suspended execution of the order, stating it would resume basic assessments of tourists as it did prior to the restriction.

But later on Saturday, the Justice Department stated it would file an appeal of the judge’s order.