How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
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What Was Ira's Immigration Bill?
CNN's John Sutter looks back at the immigration bill passed 27 years ago. He says it was seen as a major law, but in totally different ways now. Immigration policy has changed so much since then that we don't know what to do with it all, he says.Sutter: The 1965 act really opens up America to Asian and African immigrants. It imposes restrictions on legal immigration from the Western hemisphere.
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