It was a more subtle way of restricting immigration from "undesirable" countries. https://scholars.org/brief/how-legacies-racism-persist-us-immigration-policy

It was a more subtle way of restricting immigration from "undesirable" countries. https://scholars.org/brief/how-legacies-racism-persist-us-immigration-policy https://scholars.org/brief/how-legacies-racism-persist-us-im... US immigration law has always been racist.