Talk:Emergency Quota Act

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"limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, according to Census figures. That was 357,802 people."

Huh?? 3% of the the number of immigrants from each country was 357,802 people? That means every country on earth had exactly the same amount of immigrants living in the US? that makes no sense.

84.62.26.230 23:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Misleading quote
The article says this quota act is also known as the "Johnson Quota Act." Following the description of the act is a quote by Representative Albert Johnson. However, if you click on Albert Johnson, you'll find that he was born in 1906, which would make him 15 years old at the time of the Emergency Quota Act. Clearly this is not the Johnson for which the act is named.


 * I was thinking the exact same thing.Jmlk17 06:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I just read the article, the quote makes it sound like Johnson had something to do with the bill but he was not in the congress at the time. The quote should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.175.118.196 (talk) 13:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Removed. Benkenobi18 (talk) 16:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

The Albert Johnson in question was born in 1869. Please take greater care with your edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.226.8 (talk) 16:50, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

"however some felt it was mainly in response to the millions of Jews who begun fleeing the terrible persecution they were facing in Western Europe starting in 1890."

*Western* Europe? Are you quite sure you don't mean *Eastern* Europe? That's where the persecution was mostly occurring in 1890. (The Russian Empire and some neighboring countries.)

Berkowit28 (talk) 19:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Was the 1920 Census tabulated by the middle of 1921 to have the data on Jewish emigration from 1910 -1919? I don't think so... Therefore, to automatically assume that the numbers of Jews or any group who had emigrated to the U S was accurately known at that point seems to be a bit presumptuous.... If this were the 1924 Act, I might agree with such analysis-- after all, with much better computers to do the number crunching, not much from the 2010 Census was released in 2012 (over a year after the Census was completed). 64.131.132.92 (talk) 19:12, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

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