dec 26, 1964 - The Hart-Celler of 1965

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The Hart-Celler Act increased the Quota for Immigrants and ended the immigration decided on race and nationality. the 1965 law abolished the national-origins quota system. It was replaced with a preference system based on immigrants’ family relationships with U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents and, to a lesser degree, their skills. The law placed an annual cap of 170,000 visas for immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, with no single country allowed more than 20,000 visas, and for the first time established a cap of 120,000 visas for immigrants from the Western Hemisphere.

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