3. Read the following quote, and analyze how the ideas within the quote may have
influenced the quotas of the National Origins Act (1924):
'Henceforth, after 1924, the immigrant to the United States was to be looked
upon, not as a source of cheap or competitive labor, nor as one seeking asylum from
foreign oppression ... but as a parent of future-born American citizens. This means that
the hereditary stuff out of which future immigrants were made would have to be
compatible racially with American ideals.' - Harry Laughlin, Eugenicist