> I'm looking for a good book or two on the history of U.S. immigration > policy: when did they start regulating immigration and why? How did > employers use immigration (if they did) to divide the workforce and push > down wages? What were the successive structures of immigration policy in > the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Any advice? > Doug check out Franklin S. Adams, "American Immigration Policy: How Strait the Gate," _Law and Contemporary Social Problems_, Vol. 45, Number 2 (Spring 1982)... the first immigration law that set quotas was passed by Congress in 1921...they were based on the ethnic/racial mixture of the population in 1910 (I think)...racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, anti-immigant labor, anti-communism, post-WW1 patriotism were all factors...Michael Hoover
