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In the UK, an act of Parliament passed by the
Conservative government in 1905 to restrict
the immigration of `undesirable persons' into
Britain; the first major piece of legislation
on immigration, it was aimed primarily at
Jews and other people from eastern Europe.
Undesirable persons were defined as people
who might be a charge on the poor rates
because they were without means or infirm.
Since the act appeared to be stimulated by
the arrival of large numbers of impoverished
Europeans, many of them Jews from the Russian
Empire, Prime Minister Balfour was accused of
anti-Semitism.