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Oct 16, 2015 · By 1981, the average number of immigrants gaining permanent visas had doubled from 1965 levels, roughly reaching 600,000 people per year. This figure rose to around 1 million after the passage of ...
Immigration and Nationality Act. On January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson called on Congress to eliminate the nation’s forty-year-old national origins quota system as the basis for immigration and pass an immigration law “based on the work a man can do and not where he was born or how he spells his name.”.
3 The Beginning of the End: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Emergence of the Modern U.S.-Mexico Border State 116 Kevin R. Johnson 4 The Last Preference: Refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act 171 Brian Soucek Part II The 1965 Immigration Act and the Policy of Family Unification 5 The 1965 Immigration Act: Family Unifi cation and ...
On October 31, 1965, the President approved the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1966, which included an additional sum of $12,600,000 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for assistance to refugees in the United States (Public Law 89-309, 79 Stat. 1133). On February 15, 1966, the White House made public a report to the President ...
Oct 3, 2015 · President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as he signs a new immigration bill on Oct. 3, 1965. ... The Immigration and Nationality Act, signed at the foot of ...
The United States Senate approved an amended version of the bill by a vote of 76-18 on September 22, 1965. The House voted to adopt the Senate's version of the bill by a vote of 320-70 on September 30, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) signed the Immigration and Nationality Act into law on October 3, 1965. Provisions
Immigration and Nationality Act. On January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson called on Congress to eliminate the nation’s forty-year-old national origins quota system as the basis for immigration and pass an immigration law “based on the work a man can do and not where he was born or how he spells his name.”.
