What is the immigration Service or the Immigration act in 1891?
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The legislation passed in 1891 updated the 1882 Immigration Act that denied entry to "convicts (except those convicted of political offences), lunatics, idiots and persons likely to become public charges". Prospective immigrants were now refused if they had a "dangerous contagious disease" or were polygamists. It was now the responsibility of the commanding officer of every vessel bringing immigrants to the United States to report to the officials the "name, nationality, last residence, and destination of all such aliens".
Shortly after the U.S. Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility. The Immigration Act of 1891 established an Office of the Superintendent of Immigration within the Treasury Department. This office was responsible for admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States and for implementing national immigration policy. 'Immigrant Inspectors', as they were called then, were stationed at major U.S. ports of entry collecting manifests of arriving passengers. Its largest station was located on Ellis Island in New York harbor. Among other things, a 'head tax' of fifty cents was collected on each immigrant.
Paralleling some immigration concerns of today, back in the early 1900's Congress's primary interest in immigration was to protect American workers and wages: the reason it had become a federal concern in the first place. This made immigration more a matter of commerce than revenue. In 1903, Congress transferred the Bureau of Immigration to the newly created (now-defunct) Department of Commerce and Labor.
After World War I, Congress attempted to stem the flow of immigrants, still mainly coming from Europe, by passing laws in 1921 and 1924 limiting the number of newcomers by assigning a quota to each nationality based upon its representation in previous U.S. Census figures. Each year, the U.S. State Department issued a limited number of visas; only those immigrants who had obtained them and could present valid visas were permitted entry.
President Franklin Roosevelt moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in 1940.
I would check a high school American History book for that information, or google it.
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