· Washington, D.C.
Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) Enacted
history
Passed over President Truman's veto, the law ended the outright racial bar to naturalization dating to 1790 and gave each Asian nation a small immigration quota, though it retained restrictive national-origins quotas.
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Sources
- history.state.gov history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/immigration-act
- govinfo.gov govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg163.pdf