Pre-1965 quotas admitted only 100 immigrants per Muslim-majority country yearly

Evidence

“Under these quotas, only 100 immigrants from most Muslim-majority countries were allowed entry into the United States. The quotas did not apply to visitors, foreign students, immediate family members of U.S. citizens, and members of certain professions, such as professors and religious workers.” Ibid., p. 292. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 668

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the concrete legal machinery behind the structural Islamophobia that Ernst and Selod also document; connects to the book’s own earlier chapters on exclusion laws.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 668