Hart-Cellar Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 has benefited the U.S. through mass immigration. Topics include the relation between the law's nationality quotas and the undocumented status of many immigrants, the relation of the law to civil-rights legislation, and changes to U.S. ...
This chapter examines immigration policy in the United States from the end of World War II through the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act, or Hart-Celler Act, of 1965. Hart-Celler wiped away a half century of race- and nationality-based admissions policy, abolishing the national ...