How Is This A Barrier?

This bill sought out to exclude anyone who had to do anything with communism, along with diseased, criminals or political radicals. Journalist Phil Tajitsu Nash stated that it was "explicit racial discrimination against Asian immigration,". The McCarran Walter Act admitted only 2,000 Asians yearly. This Act basically also said that if you were Asian but born in Europe, you were counted in the national quotas system. Senator Patrick McCarran instituted a quota system that practiced open ethnic bias.

A newspaper from the 1950s talking about how Francis Walter says "aliens' do not find a barrier when coming here

If one was Irish, British or German, they were basically placed in the preferred slot in the 70% of the quota specifically put aside for these races. Yet, regardless of skin tone, if one was a skilled laborer, they had a pretty good shot in getting in the United States. People have said this is because McCarran wants a strong labor-force that had little political representation and could be opressed easily.

This act also made it so that a person could be incarcerated, denied entry or deported for talking about or writing about the glorification of communism. Meaning, a person using their First Amendment and the freedom of speech could have consequences. Democrat Emanuel Celler stated that these restrictive quota systems heavily favored Northern and Western European immigrants. This created a sense that Americans thought that people from Asia were deemed less desirable as those from European countries.

Eighty-five percent of the 154,277 visas available were given to those of Northern and Western European lineage. This created a barrier because it seperated white immigrants with other groups (specifically targeted at Asians) and greatly discriminated Asians while giving major preferences/biasty to Europeans and continued the practice of exclusion.

This divided our immigration systems and restricted us from coming together as a country of full culture, diversity and inclusion.

A family viewing the New York skyline after passing the examination in 1925