The Only Way to Handle It

IMMIGRATION & UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

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Team Member Name: Mariah Noble

Publication Unavailable (now located in the Library of Congress) Date: 1921 Cartoonist: Unavailable U.S./International (circle)

Title of the cartoon:_The Only Way to Handle It___Cartoon#___

What action is taking place in the cartoon?

Uncle Sam is limiting the dimension of a funnel transferring people from Europe to the United States

Tone of the cartoon:

1) positive or negative framing of undocumented immigrants (circle answer)

2) positive or negative framing of immigration policies (Circle answer)

What “reality” is constructed/framed about immigration/immigrants?

This editorial cartoon expresses the need for regulation of allowing European immigrants into the United States and illustrates the results of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which limited the number of new immigrants to 3 percent of the number of immigrants existing already in the United States. There is a giant funnel that starts in Europe and deposits immigrants into the United States. Uncle Sam is constricting the smaller end of the funnel by putting a gate of 3 percent into it. In his other hand, he holds papers which can be interpreted as the new law. The image gives the impression that tons of Europeans want to move to the United States, but allowing them all in would overwhelm Americans. The caption, “The only way to handle it,” frames the new law limiting immigration as the only logical solution to the problem of overpopulation by Europeans.