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1 day ago · Significant immigration from India to the United States started after the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. [72] [73] Early immigrants after 1965 were highly educated professionals. Since US immigration laws allow sponsoring immigration of parents, children and particularly siblings on the basis of family reunion, the numbers ...
1 day ago · The act was the first U.S. immigration law to target a specific ethnicity or nationality. [34] : 25 Moreover, following the example of Kaiser Wilhelm II's use of the term in 1895, the popular press in the U.S. adopted the phrase "yellow peril" to identify Japan as a military threat, and to describe the many emigrants from Asia.
6 hours ago · The 1924 National Origins Quota Act shaped US immigration policy, favoring Northern and Western Europe. Today, there's a backlog of 35 million pending legal immigration applicants, with only 3% likely to be approved. The act's legacy contributes to illegal immigration, as legal pathways are nearly impossible to access.
1 day ago · In accordance with its immigration policy, Croatia is also trying to entice emigrants to return. Croatian citizenship is acquired in a multitude of ways, based on origin, place of birth, naturalization and international treaties.
3 hours ago · Signature. Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court ...
1 day ago · François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand [a] (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth ...
3 hours ago · Demokratičtí zákonodárci chtějí tento návrh zablokovat, protože by poškodil především imigranty z neevropských zemí, kteří od přijetí Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 převládají mezi legálními imigranty do Spojených států. Listopad a prosinec
