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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, was a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. [1]
The Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act. [1] The Armed Forces Immigration Adjustment Act allows aliens who have served in the United States Armed Forces for at least period of 12 years to be granted special immigrant status. Immigrants who have served for 6 years may also obtain special ...
The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (the Hart–Celler Act) abolished the system of national-origin quotas. There was, for the first time, a limitation on Western Hemisphere immigration (120,000 per year), with the Eastern Hemisphere limited to 170,000.
In January 1965, Celler proposed in the House of Representatives the Twenty-fifth Amendment, which clarifies an ambiguous provision of the Constitution regarding succession to the presidency. Also in 1965, he proposed and steered to passage the Hart-Celler Act, which eliminated national origins as a consideration for immigration. This was the ...
"The Heart Sellers" title is a homophone for Hart-Celler, the informal name of The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, sponsored by Sen. Philip A. Hart and Rep. Emanuel Celler, which opened ...
October 3, 1965: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, (Hart-Celler Act, INS Act) Pub. L. 89–236 October 6, 1965: Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments , Pub. L. 89–239 October 20, 1965: Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act , Pub. L. 89–272 (including Solid Waste Disposal Act )
“The Heart Sellers” is word play on the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 when President Johnson changed the nation’s immigration quota program.
Hart was the chief Senate sponsor of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, which ended the quotas that restricted immigration from most of the world since 1924. Hart died in office. He had announced his intention not to run for re-election in June 1976 and was diagnosed with cancer a month later. [9]