The Dillingham Commission
In 1907, Congress formed the Dillingham Commission to investigate the recent influx of immigrants and their possible consequences, which concluded in 1911. Their findings labeled immigrants from southern and eastern Europe as threats and were cited in support of the immigration acts of 1921 and 1924, which heavily targeted these groups.
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"There was no question of the racial superiority of northwestern Europeans or of the racial inferiority of southeastern Europeans. It was simply a question as to which of these two groups of aliens is, as a whole, best fitted, by tradition, political background, customs, education, and habits of thought to adjust itself to American institutions and to American social and economic conditions?" – “Our New Immigration Policy” 1924 [1\ |