Sold – Pen Used by Lyndon Johnson to Sign the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Which Changed the Longstanding Immigration Policy in America
Given to Hyman Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy and himself an immigrant from Jewish Poland; Acquired from the Rickover Descendants and never before offered for sale.
The Hart-Celler Act, or the Immigration and Nationality Act, abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year,...
The Hart-Celler Act, or the Immigration and Nationality Act, abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year, with a per- country-of-origin quota, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, nor "special immigrants" (including those born in "independent" nations in the Western hemisphere; former citizens; ministers; employees of the U.S. government abroad). There was, for the first time, a limitation on Western Hemisphere immigration, with the Eastern Hemisphere limited to 170,000. It was the first major and systemic revision of immigrant laws since the 1930s.
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