Time | The Regional Origins of America’s First Comprehensive Federal Immigration Law

July 9, 2024

“At the local level, communities are also working to protect immigrant rights. In Washington State, organizations like WA Immigrant Solidarity Network -Red de Solidaridad de Inmigrantes en WA, UW Center for Human Rights, La Resistencia, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, OneAmerica, and Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest aim to expunge all detritus of the 1924 Immigration Restriction Act from the immigration system. Residents of Washington State may have a special interest in confronting the burden of past—and ongoing—injustices in the immigration system, but it falls to people across the country to overturn the legacies of figures like Albert Johnson and the ongoing, bipartisan xenophobia that lives on beyond him.”