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Immigration Act becomes law at midnight tonight
The McCarran Walter General Immigration Act becomes law at midnight amid controversy. The act preserves national origins quotas, removes racial barriers to admission and naturalization, tightens screening of subversives, and introduces a master index of border crossings.
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