The American Legion’s twentieth national convention asked the closing of all immigration quotation for ten years. the convention approved in full the report of its national Americanism Committee favoring a reduction of at least 90 percent in immigration quotas and opposing any kind of asylum bill which would make the united States a “dumping ground” for political, class and racial refugees.
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