McCarran-Walter+Act



Passed at senator McCarran's urging in 1952. The law reaffirmed the quota system all countries that had been established in 1924. The law discriminated against against immigrants form Asia and most of Southern Europe. President Truman vetoed the bill and called it "one of the most un-American bills I have ever witnessed in my public career", but it was still passed by Congress.

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