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In 1920 congress passed the emergency quota act , which limited the number of immigrants from any country to be less than 3% per year of the total number of immigrants. Congress passed the Immigration act to change the percentage to be 2% and to specifically restrict immigration from East Asia and southern and eastern Europe. The idea was to keep the socialists and communists out of the country, for example " sacco and vanzentti case "

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