Immigration Act Of 1965 Essay

During the presidency of Lyndon B Johnson the United States of America was engage in the civil right movement for African Americans and the war in Vietnam. To communist countries the United States of America was the one to blame due to their history of discrimination against African Americans and also Asian Immigrants in their soil. For this reason law makers decide to open immigration policies in hopes that this change will improve the U.S.A. reputation overseas.
As a symbolic act the Immigration Act of 1965 was signed near the Statue of Liberty, this act change the policy towards non-Europeans Immigrants. The act went into effect on July 1, 1968, it increases the number of immigrants allowed per year from 154,000 to 290,000 .The Eastern Hemisphere ceiling was 170,000, with no more than 20,000 per country and Western Hemisphere 120,000 with no limit by country (History Reference Center. Paragraph 2). At the time, the law allowed the entry of children, parents, and spouses of Americans citizens without limitations.
Politicians and law makers initially though that the wave of immigrants to USA soil will be form Europe, but instead the economic stability of this nations prove them wrong, but favor Asians immigrants that where the 24% of the total immigrants

citizen was the primary reason for immigration admission and it was determine in the following order. First preference was unmarried children, of any age. Second, spouses and unmarried children. The next group covered noncitizens alien resident’s relatives, first the spouse and unmarried children. The third group favor professionals and persons of exceptional ability in the arts and sciences who intended to work for American employers. The four group favor U.S citizens married children of any age. The fifth group favors noncitizen sisters and brothers of U.S. citizens. The last classification are for individuals that can take jobs for which Americans workers are in short