<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section contains too many or too - lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry . Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally - worded summary with appropriate citations . Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote . (May 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section contains too many or too - lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry . Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally - worded summary with appropriate citations . Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote . (May 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924 . The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians and Slavs, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s . Most of the European refugees fleeing the Nazis and World War II were barred from coming to the United States . </P> <P> In the 1980s and 1990s many criticisms were expressed, from both the left and right . Criticisms come from a wide variety of perspectives, but predominantly from the perspective of liberal individualism, from American conservatives concerned about shared traditional values, and from a national unity perspective . </P>

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