...-restrictionists could find common ground when it came to immigration reform were family reunification and skill-based immigration, which opened up opportunities for some immigrants but heavily penalized others thus contributing to create the uneven and unfair immigration system still in existence today. anti...

... of the preference for family reunification and skill-based immigration and began to change the migratory flows to the United States, thus paving the way for the diversification of U.S. society usually associated with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Nonetheless, while these changes helped...

... Skill-based immigration Lyndon B. Johnson Illegal immigration Western Hemisphere After John Fitzgerald Kennedy became president of the United States, critics of immigration restriction believed that sweeping reform was imminent, but when the first Catholic president and the grandson of Irish...