What are some pro's and con's of the Immigration Act of 1924?

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This established U.S. immigration policy for almost 50 years. It ended the problem over European immigrants dating back to 1890s. It put quotas on immigrants and tried to end any immigrants from southern European countries as racially inferior and posed a threat to the nation's future. It also ended any Japanese immigrants (some referred to it as the Japanese exclusion Act. Beginning in 1927 a quota of 150,000 immigrant were allowed in the U.S. July 1, 1924, was declared a national day of mourning in Tokyo by the newspapers. This helped make things worse between the U.S. and Japan in the period before WW2.