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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a landmark federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
May 25, 2016 · President Lyndon B. Johnson's Landmark Immigration Reform of 1965 - The Atlantic. Politics. The Overwhelming Barriers to Successful Immigration Reform. LBJ led crucial...
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ARTICLE: Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, radically altering U.S. policy and reshaping the demographic profile of the United States. Examining the foreign policy and domestic concerns leading to the law's enactment, David S. FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín argue that the demise ...
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.”.
Oct 2, 2015 · President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act on Liberty Island in 1965 ( AP) October 2, 2015. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, whose 50th anniversary comes...
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Oct 15, 2015 · Signed into law at the foot of the Statue of Liberty by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the act ushered in far-reaching changes that continue to undergird the current immigration system, and set in motion powerful demographic forces that are still shaping the United States today and will in the decades ahead.
Oct 16, 2015 · Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in New York City and signed into law the most sweeping U.S. immigration reform to date—The...
