fied all previous exclusion provisions and added the exclusion of illiterate aliens form entering into the United States. (3,1098) It also created a "barred zone"(Asia-Pacific triangle), whose natives were also inadmissible. (3,1098) This Act made Mexicans inadmissible. (3,1395) It insisted that all aliens pay a head tax of $8 dollars. (3,1395) However, because of the high demand for labor in the southwest, months later congress let Mexican workers (braceros) to stay in the U.S. under supervision of state government for six month periods. (3,1395)
             A series of statutes were made in 1917,1918, and 1920. (3,1141) The sought to define more clearly which aliens were admissible and which aliens were deportable. These decisions were made mostly on the aliens' political beliefs. (3,1141) They formed these statutes in reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led to a Russian economic recession and a surge of immigrants used to communistic ideals bringing along with them a red scare. (3,1141) The Immigration
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