... human reproduction. They encouraged reproduction of the "best and the brightest" and discouraged reproduction of the "unfit" -- including criminals, alcoholics, psychotics, the retarded, paupers, and those in poor physical health and envisioned a society that perpetuated white middle and upper class power. By sterilizing the mentally ill and restricting foreign immigration, eugenicists sought to isolate the American genetic stock from ... of the busiest times in U.S. immigration. During the first two decades of the 20th century, 600,000-1,250,000 immigrants per year entered the country t...

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