The goal of U.S. immigration policy should be to find Americans who happen to have been born abroad, and bring them home.
The lottery's first incarnation, passed in 1986, was a gesture at balance for those who had begun to feel that America was letting in far more brown and black immigrants than was entirely desirable. In its early years the lottery favored those "adversely affected" by the Immigration Act of 1965. That act, prioritizing professional skills
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THROUGHOUT THE 1990S, the number of immigrants of color in the United States grew, due to the combined effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the Refugee Act of 1980, and the Immigration Act of 1990. Taken together, these bills encouraged family reunification, immigration from conflict areas, and a diversity visa program that spike
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