"The
Immigration Act of 1924, or
Johnson–Reed Act, including the
National Origins Act, and
Asian Exclusion Act (
Pub.L. 68–139, 43
Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a
United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the
United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the
Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921
Emergency Quota Act. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of
Southern Europeans and
Eastern Europeans.
[1] In addition, it severely restricted the immigration of
Africans and outright banned the immigration of
Arabs and
Asians. According to the U.S. Department of State
Office of the Historian the purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity". From wikipedia under Immigration Act of 1924
There were other acts like this as well. Congress has the power to naturalize and regulate immigration, the president does not have the authority, but certain ones have violated the Constitution by granting amnesty to illegal aliens in America, in the past. Amnesty is illegal by circumventing the immigration laws.
U.S. Constitution:
Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have power [...] To establish a uniform rule of naturalization...
If anyone is in America, please study history and the Constitution as a civic duty.
Certain liars in the news media and elsewhere, have stated that the 14th amendment applies to illegal aliens, however:
"A 2010
Congressional Research Service report, however, observed that, though it could be argued that Congress has no power to define “subject to the jurisdiction” and the terms of citizenship in a manner contrary to the Supreme Court’s understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment as expressed in
Wong Kim Ark and
Elk, since Congress does have broad power to pass necessary and proper legislation to regulate immigration and naturalization under the Constitution, Art. I, § 8, cls. 4 & 18 of the constitution Congress arguably has the power to define “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” for the purpose of regulating immigration." From wikipedia
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/147254.pdf