EPISODE · Mar 26, 2026 · 1 MIN
March 26 - Gompers Embraces Anti-Immigrant Legislation
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1910. That was the day that Congress expanded the Immigration Act passed three years earlier. The new language prohibited “criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons” from entering the nation. During the first decade of the twentieth century, some nine million immigrants arrived on the shores of the United States.
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On this day in Labor History the year was 1910. That was the day that Congress expanded the Immigration Act passed three years earlier. The new language prohibited “criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons” from entering the nation. During the first decade of the twentieth century, some nine million immigrants arrived on the shores of the United States.
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