As the violence of immigration policing unfolds in neighborhoods throughout the United States, scholars of immigration history come together for a critical reflection on the 1917 "Barred Zone" Act that imposed a literacy test and geopolitical restrictions on immigrants to the United States. This roundtable includes an overview of the landmark legislation and its implications for subsequent immigration policy, an assessment of the policy's impact on Asian immigrants and their U.S.-born children, a consideration of the policy's influence on Black and Mexican workers, and a review of its effect on border policing. Discussants include the current president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and junior and senior scholars of immigration and borderlands history, each of whom will offer a unique perspective on the 1917 "Barred Zone" Act and invite discussion from audiences concerned about Asian, Black, and Mexican responses to immigration exclusion and racialization.