The McCarran-Walter Act: A Contradictory Legacy on Race, Quotas, and Ideology

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June 1, 2004

The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 ended the blanket exclusion of immigrants based on race and created the foundation for current immigration law, but imposed a racialized immigration quota system and new ideological grounds for exclusion.

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