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The US Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated that a $0.50 tax would be levied on all immigrants landing at United States ports.
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This act declared that certain classes of individuals were unfit to become American citizens.
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This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective”, polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate.
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The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula and established then.
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increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements.[1]
