Pat McCarran

McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans

1952-06-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Congress passes the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act) over President Truman’s veto on June 27, 1952, codifying a racialized immigration quota system that allocates 85 percent of the 154,277 visas available annually to individuals of northern and western European …

Pat McCarran Francis E. Walter Harry S. Truman U.S. Congress Herbert Lehman immigration racial-discrimination quota-system legislative-override anticommunism

McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration

1950-09-23 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President Harry Truman vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act) on September 22, 1950, sending Congress a lengthy veto message criticizing specific provisions as “the greatest danger to freedom of speech, press, and assembly since the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798,” a …

Pat McCarran Karl Mundt Harry Truman Hubert Humphrey U.S. Congress +4 more mccarthyism red-scare congressional-action civil-liberties huac +1 more