Immigration+Act+of+1965

The immigration Act of 1965 was mainly put in place because to eliminate strict quotas for individual countries and replaced them with more flexible limits. The limit was 20,000 immigrants per year from any country outside the Western Hemisphere. US citizens and families were exempted or excused from the quotas. In 1960, around 350,000 immigrants entered the United States and from the 1970s on, the number was 400,000.

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