TSG member Jerry Rische will discuss the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act marked a dark chapter in our nation’s immigration history. It ended a historic migration of Jews to the United States and created restrictions that would keep out many Jewish refugees when the
Nazis rose to power a decade later.
Why was Johnson-Reed enacted? How did it change immigration law?
How did it impact the ability of Jews to enter the U.S.? How did the U.S. State
Department acquire an outsized role in denying Jews legal entry into the
United States pursuant to the Act? What was the ultimate result of the Act on Jews? Is our own era all that different from that which led to Johnson-Reed’s passage? Join us as we discuss these and other important questions about U.S. immigration policy. Click here for the Zoom link.