Susan Page

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Susan Page @SusanPage

...The Senate wouldn't go that far but was willing to significantly restrict the number of immigrants. Congress began negotiating a new immigration bill, which would set quotas for the first time on the number of immigrants from each country who could enter the United States. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2020

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Susan Page @SusanPage

Here's one historical parallel on suspending immigration: In 1920, amid rising isolationism, the influenza pandemic and a postwar economic recession, the House of Representatives voted to end all immigration to the US for one year. The vote was bipartisan, 293-41. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Q for the Twitterverse: Has the United States ever before suspended immigration, even temporarily? https://t.co/KtwKjN1cef

Posted April 21, 2020 Hibernated

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...At the last minute, the Senate rejected a proposed House amendment that would have exempted immigrants who could prove they were escaping political/racial persecution. Had it been enacted, the US response to the refugee crisis in the 1930s might have been different. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2020