{"id":83652,"date":"2026-01-17T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83652"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:03:15","slug":"racial-quotas-for-immigration-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/racial-quotas-for-immigration-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial quotas for immigration are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Up5Me.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=70&amp;y=512&amp;s=53&amp;d=53\" alt=\"\u2018The 1924 Immigration Act restricted immigration to the United States on the basis of nation of origin for four decades.\u2019 Photograph: Bloomberg\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 14 January, the Trump administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/14\/g-s1-106065\/trump-immigrant-visa-suspensions-public-assistance#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20State%20Department%20said,living%20in%20the%20United%20States.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">announced<\/a> a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as 10 countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/racial-quotas-for-immigration-are-back\/ar-AA1UpayX?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=696bbb413e054b608c2ed82ae12048ba&amp;ei=19\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On 14 January, the Trump administration\u00a0announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump-in-his-office.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83653,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652\/revisions\/83653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}