1. Woodrow Wilson and Immigration Laws
... Congress and had to be vetoed by his own party chairman, President William Howard Taft. Newly arrived to in the presidency, Wilson was faced with a new figure, the Democratic Congressman John L. Burnett of Alabama, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, that sought to reintroduce the measure of literacy test as measure against uncontrolled Immigration coming to ... approval of the literacy test was required as proof of admission to America. A memorial was adopted as anonymous telegraphed to President Wilson, in which they said things like: &apo...
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