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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...
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 ...
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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).
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.”.
Sep 20, 2019 · Short Reads. |. September 20, 2019. From the archives: In ’60s, Americans gave thumbs-up to immigration law that changed the nation. By Andrew Kohut (1942-2015) President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Nationality Act into law on Liberty Island in New York Harbor on Oct. 3, 1965.
- Andrew Kohut (1942-2015)
Jun 13, 2020 · Lyndon Johnson signing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The legislation ended ethnic quotas and included a family reunification...
