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I used to wonder why Mexico never got that much immigration in its history compared to Argentina, Brazil and Chile and:
Overview of Mexican immigration policy in regards to ethnicity or nationality:
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1823 - Permanent settlement and naturalization is restricted to Catholics[8] (see also General Colonization Law)
1860 - Catholic favoritism ends with the establishment of freedom of religion[8]
1909 - First comprehensive immigration law rejects racial discrimination (enacted under the Porfirian regime, but ignored by the governments that followed the Mexican Revolution)[8]
1917 - Shorter naturalization times for Latin Americans[8]
1921 - Confidential circular, followed by an accord between China and Mexico, restricts Chinese immigration[8]
1923 - Confidential circular excludes Indians[8] (these confidential circulars were kept secretive in order to avoid diplomatic problems, such as with the British Empire or the United States)
1924 - Confidential circular excludes blacks[8] (in practice, it excluded working class Afro-Latin Americans, but not elites)
1926 - Confidential circular excludes gypsies[8]
1926 - Exclusion of those who "constitute a danger of physical degeneration for our race"[8] (see also Blanqueamiento and national policy)
1927 - Exclusion of Palestinians, Arabs, Syrians, Lebanese, Armenians and Turks[8]
1929 - Confidential circular excludes Poles and Russians[8]
1931 - Confidential circular excludes Hungarians[8]
1933 - Exclusion or restrictions of blacks, Malays, Indians, the 'yellow race' (East Asians, except Japanese), Soviets, gypsies, Poles, Lithuanians, Czechs, Slovacks, Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Armenians, Arabs and Turks.[8]
1934 - Exclusion or restrictions extended to Aboriginals, Latvians, Bulgerians, Romanians, Persians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Albanians, Afghans, Ethiopians, Algerians, Egyptians, Moroccans and Jews.[8]
1937 - Quotas establishes unlimited immigration from the Americas and Spain; 5,000 annual slots for each of thirteen Western European nationalities and the Japanese; and 100 slots for nationals of each other country of the world.[8]
1939 - Shorter naturalization times for Spaniards[8]
1947 - Law rejects racial discrimination, but promotes a preference for "assimilable" foreigners[8]
1974 - Law eliminates assimilability as a gauge for admission[8]
1993 - Shorter naturalization times for Portuguese
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 Which racist came up with all these quotas
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