Immigration Dbq

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Of course, the problem of immigrants did not emerge overnight. The U.S. has, at various points in its history, led the world in the breadth of its extension of full citizenship rights, and the past 100 years have seen dramatic expansion in the numbers and kinds of people who have access to those rights. Establishing legal foundations for social progress, the Immigration Act of 1924 “[unfolded] over the next several decades and processes that have been called ‘becoming American’ (or more precisely white Americans)” (Egendorf 140). The Act suggested that immigration law and policy were deeply implicated in broader racial and ethnic remapping of the nation. It “contributed to the radicalization of immigration groups around notions of whiteness,