small handful of favored nations from around the world from which we would allow people to emigrate here legally. a quota system that only included countries where people emigrated from there were white people with blue eyes. one of the most consequential things president johnson did was get rid of the quota law. he didn t increase the number of immigrants allowed to come to this country in total but said we won t say it only can be white people from a handful of countries. for over four decades the immigration policy of the united states has been twisted and has been distorted by the harsh injustice of the national origins quota system. only three countries were allowed to supply 70% of all the immigrants. men of needed skill and talent
small handful of favored nations from around the world from which we would allow people to emigrate here legally. a quota system that only included countries where people emigrated from there were white people with blue eyes. one of the most consequential things president johnson did was get rid of the quota law. he didn t increase the number of immigrants allowed to come to this country in total but said we won t say it only can be white people from a handful of countries. for over four decades the immigration policy of the united states has been twisted and has been distorted by the harsh injustice of the national origins quota system. only three countries were allowed to supply 70% of all the immigrants. men of needed skill and talent were denied entrance because they came from southern or eastern europe or from one of the developing continents. this system violated the basic principle of american democracy.