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- Title
A DEFENSE OF THE McCARRAN-WALTER ACT.
- Authors
ALEXANDER, ROBERT C.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act as it was introduced in the Senate by late Senator Pat McCarran and in the House by Congressman Francis Walter. It states that the Act codifies previous laws on immigration, deportation and naturalization, and incorporates improvements over old laws. It discusses the provisions of the Act that have drawn criticism including the national-origins quota system, that allocates annual immigration quotas, the method of computing quotas, and the basic policy of the national-origins system. It also discusses the report of the Commission on Immigration and Naturalization, created by President Harry Truman, on the country's immigrarion, deportation, nationality and natutalization laws.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Immigration &; Nationality Act; IMMIGRATION law; IMMIGRATION policy; DEPORTATION; NATURALIZATION; MCCARRAN, Pat, 1876-1954; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1956, Vol 21, Issue 2, p382
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190510