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The McCarran-Walter Act:A Contradictory Legacy on Race, Quotas, and Ideology

The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 ended the blanket exclusion of immigrants based on race and created the foundation for current immigration law, but imposed a racialized immigration quota system and new ideological grounds for exclusion.

Published On: Tue, Jun 01, 2004 | Download File [1]

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Source URL: http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/mccarran-walter-acta-contradictory-legacy-race-quotas-and-ideology

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[1] http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Brief21 - McCarran-Walter.pdf