"On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as 10 countries from eastern Europe. The Department of Homeland Security justified the decision by claiming that immigrants from these countries are at high risk of reliance on welfare and becoming a public charge."
"I also noted a pattern uniting the countries on the list: nearly all were also restricted through the 1924 Immigration Act's racial quotas. Albert Johnson, its lead author, was a representative from Washington, and a eugenicist, who believed that our capacity to maintain our cherished institutions stands diluted by a stream of alien blood. Johnson, who boasted about participating in Ku Klux Klan violence against south Asians, wrote the Immigration Act to exclude anyone who was not a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant."
On 14 January the Trump administration halted immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and ten eastern European countries, citing high risk of welfare reliance and becoming a public charge. Most immigrants have been legally disqualified from cash welfare since 1996. Those eligible for benefits such as SNAP and Medicaid use them at lower rates than non-immigrants. Immigrants, including many undocumented who are excluded from federal benefits, are net contributors through taxes. Many targeted countries mirror those restricted by the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which enforced racial quotas favoring northern and western Europe.
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