Asian allies in WWII triggered the dismantling of US national-origin immigration bars

Evidence

Simultaneous with pressures to implement racial equality were pressures to open up America’s borders to immigration from Asia. After China joined the United States as an allied nation in World War II, President Roosevelt successfully pushed for repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1943 Magnuson Act. A decade later, Congress passed the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, granting Asians the right to naturalize as citizens. By 1965, all national origin quotas and immigration bars were lifted. The door was now open for immigrants from outside Europe, including Muslim-majority countries, to come to America in large numbers. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader arc of the book tracing how Muslim Americans inherited the legal status formerly imposed on Asian Americans. — connects to: Immigration restrictions climaxed a wartime cascade of anti-foreign statutes — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1806