Facing Up to the Racist Legacy of America's Immigration Laws

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In addition to immigration bans, there were efforts throughout this period to remove nonwhite people already living in the country. In 1816, a group of white Americans founded the American Colonization Society to transport freeborn Blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa. The Greater Liberia Act of 1939, which failed to pass Congress, proposed the deportation of 12 million African Americans to Liberia.