1965–1994
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2021
In 1958, Senator John F. Kennedy published a slim volume, A Nation of Immigrants, which set out the case for reforming US immigration policies. He argued that the national origins quotas “violated the spirit expressed in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal’” (Kennedy 1964). Kennedy did not live to see legislation enacted, but, in the spirit of the civil rights movement, the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act tried to revive the Pennsylvania model of immigration, attempting to put in place a universalistic vision of immigration.
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