Able to Be American Lesley Dibley Elinor Gardiner

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Able to Be American Lesley Dibley Elinor GardinerEpilepsy. Heart disease. Varicose veins. "Feeble mindedness." In 1891, Congress unambiguously codified the popular sentiment that "defects" like these should preclude admission to the United States. Expanding the eugenics rooted restrictions of the 1882 Immigration Act, the new law conflated illness, poverty, and disability with criminality and "moral turpitude," starkly revealing Congress's vision of the "ideal" American. Simultaneously, American