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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On February 4, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to idiots , feeble-minded persons , "criminals", epileptics , insane persons , alcoholics, professional beggars , all persons mentally or physically defective , polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate.…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On February 4, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to idiots , feeble-minded persons , "criminals", epileptics , insane persons , alcoholics, professional beggars , all persons mentally or physically defective , polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate.