๐ Immigration Trivia You Didnโt Know You Needed
A post about 1882 Immigration Act
Mike Kwon
1/23/20251 min read
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ํ๋ โ๋ฒ์ฃ์, ์ ์ ์ด์์(lunatic), ๋ฐ๋ณด(idiot), ๋๋ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ๋๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋โ์ ์
๊ตญ์ ๊ธ์งํ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค, ์๊ณ ๊ณ์
จ๋์? ์ด๊ฑด 1882๋
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ 2์กฐ์ ๋์ค๋ ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ์
๋๋ค. ์ค๋๋ Customs์์ โ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง, ๋น์ ์ ๋ฏธ์ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ ๊ธฐ์ค โ๋ฐ๋ณดโ๋ก ํ์ ๋๋ ์
๊ตญ์ด ์๋ฉ๋๋คโ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋จ๊น์?
์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ํํ๋ง ์ด์ง ๋ ์ง์ค์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฑธ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค์.
Did you know the U.S. once barred entry to anyone deemed โa convict, lunatic, idiot, or person unable to take care of himself or herselfโ? Thatโs straight from Section 2 of the 1882 Immigration Act. Imagine Customs today: โSorry, sir, weโve assessed you as an โidiot' so you're barred from entering the US.โ
Immigration laws have come a long wayโor at least gotten better at hiding their bluntness.