An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.
Enacted by
the 64th United States Congress
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 64–301
Statutes at Large
39 Stat. 874
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 10384 by Robert Lee Henry (D–TX)
Passed the House on 307-87 (March 30, 1916)
Passed the Senate on 35-17 (July 31, 1916)
Reported by the joint conference committee on January 8, 1917; agreed to by the House on January 8, 1917 (Agreed) and by the Senate on January 8, 1917 (56-10)
Vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson on December 14, 1916
Overridden by the House on February 1, 1917 (287-106)
Overridden by the Senate and became law on February 5, 1917 (62-20)
The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act[1] and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone. The most sweeping immigration act the United States had passed until that time, it followed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 in marking a turn toward nativism. The 1917 act governed immigration policy until it was amended by the Immigration Act of 1924; both acts were revised by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
^Amy J Wan, Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, p 45
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