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U.S. Immigration Control Measures: Instructions from Breckinridge Long (June 1940)

On June 26, 1940, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long issued a memo to State Department officials outlining measures to control immigration. Non-immigrant entries into the United States will depend on prior authorization from the Department, allowing for effective oversight. The memo indicated that the Department could temporarily limit the number of immigrants by imposing administrative obstacles, particularly for individuals from specific countries like Cuba and Mexico, and manage nationalities deemed undesirable.

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U.S. Immigration Control Measures: Instructions from Breckinridge Long (June 1940)

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  1. Memo from Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, to State Department Officials.                                                June 26, 1940.Non-immigrantsTheir entry into the United States can be made to depend upon prior authorization by the Department . . . It will permit the Department to effectively control the immigration of persons in this category and private instructions can be given the Visa Division as to nationalities which should not be admitted as well as to individuals who are to be excluded.ImmigrantsWe can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the number of immigrants into the United States. We could do this by simply advising our consuls, to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas… We can temporarily prevent the number of immigrants from certain localities such as Cuba, Mexico and other places of origin of German intending immigrants by simply raising administrative obstacles.

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