[from “Obstruction of Injustice,” by Adam Hochschild, “The New Yorker” magazine, November 11, 2019]

Johnson appointed one of the leading eugenicists of the era, Harry Laughlin, as the committee's Expert Eugenics Agent.Johnson was the chief author of the Immigration Act of 1924, which in 1927 he justified as a bulwark against "a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed."