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