It’s been 100 years since the 1924 Immigration Act was signed into law. It shaped the U.S. immigration system and established racial quotas. One hundred years ago this week, the U.S. enacted a ...

There’s a right way and a wrong way to do immigration. Americans will be supportive of doing it the right way.” ...

Trump and Biden blame each other for illegal immigration. But Congress created it. The 1924 National Origins Quota Act included the first permanent cap on legal immigration.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. enacted a sweeping immigration law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, which replaced longstanding national origin quotas that favored Northern Europe with a new system ...

At the heart of White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller’s heated exchange with a reporter over proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy is a decades-old act of Congress that had ...

Once labor unions switch to the other side, that removes one of the big political opponents to changing the quotas. Kennedy supported immigration reform and Johnson signed the 1965 act into law ...

It’s often called the National Origins Quota Act. Before its passage, there had been no numerical limit on immigration to the U.S. The limit that Congress imposed in 1924 was 150,000 people.

Retropolis 100 years after immigration law shut America’s doors, its legacy revives. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, signed into law 100 years ago Friday, set strict quotas on who could come to ...

About a 100 years ago, Congress’ passage of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 established restrictive standards specifically limiting immigration from certain ...

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 helped to turn the United States into a more multicultural society. Fifty years later, the law provides important lessons for advancing immigration reform.

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, whose 50th anniversary comes on October 3, officially committed the United States, for the first time, to accepting immigrants of all nationalities on a ...