The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as the McCarran-Walter Act is a law that modified immigration into the United States using immigration quotas. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 is codified under U.S. law under 8 U.S.C. ch. 12. The law further restricted the quota system used in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1924(The Johnson-Reed Act) which was to allow for “two percent of the total number of people of each nationality into the United States as of the 1890 national census” (The, 2005). The McCarran-Walter Act instead allowed for “one-sixth of one percent of each nationality’s population in the United States” as of the population in 1920. This quota system was not used for Western countries however as
