In December of 1922 and January 1923, members of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization met to consider “the admission of mentally defective children” as they worked to write and enact what would become the 1924 Immigration Act. Albert Johnson (R-WA), architect of the 1924 Act (which became known as the Johnson-Reed Act) chaired… Continue Reading Intellectually Disabled Children and the 1924 Immigration Act