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Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.
Croatia’s Brush With Looming Security Crisis In Europe (2015-06-21). Retrieved on 2015-09-05. Lucie Bednárová, Fernando Heller, Andrei Schwartz, Angela Lamboglia, Aline Robert, Daniel Tost, Georgi Gotev, Eliška Kubátová, Martina Dupáková, Krzysztof Kokoszczyński (2015-06-08). Many EU countries say “no” to immigration quotas.
The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (the Hart–Cellar Act) removed quotas on large segments of the immigration flow and legal immigration to the U.S. surged. In 2006, the number of immigrants totaled record 37.5 million. [ 111 ]
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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
Skirmishes between European countries are becoming more common across the continent, where an increase in “irregular” migrants — as those who’ve entered illegally are called here — is ...
Effective December 1, 1965, during a transition period covering fiscal years ending June 30 of 1966–1968, national quotas continued, but any unused quota spots were pooled and made available to other countries that had exhausted their quota, on a first-come, first-served basis. [48]
For example, the United Kingdom passed the UK Borders Act 2007, the Netherlands passed the Aliens Act in April 2001, Italy passed the Bossi-Fini Act of July 2002, and France passed multiple different acts (such as the French Law of 24 July 2006 on immigration and integration and the French Law of 20 November 2007 on the control of immigration ...