Greeks. Poles. Czechs. Spaniards. and Russianssought to keep immigrants coming in after 1924 as near as possible like the early settlers. They then set up the quota system. handsomely favoring with large quotas the socalled Nordics and Aryansthat is. the English. Irish and Germansand gave small. tiny quotas to all the rest of the nations of the world. Out of an immigration pie of about 150.000 authorized immigrants a year. they sliced that pie into huge pieces and tiny minuscule pieces. England got 65.000 of the 150.000. Germany got 25.000. Ireland got 17.000. All the rest of the nations. over 100 nations throughout the world. got only 49.000.
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