McCarran-Walter Act

[muh-kar-uhn wawl-ter]

noun

1. the Immigration and Nationality Act enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1952 that removed racial barriers to immigration and empowered the Department of Justice to deport immigrants or naturalized citizens engaging in subversive activities.

Example Sentences

He was the one who, in 1952, when it seemed like Congress might overturn the quota system, sponsored the McCarran-Walter Act, a bill that upheld it.

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But to secure gains for his community, he decided to abandon the other groups to support what became known as the McCarran-Walter Act.

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In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act allowed for the naturalization of other Asian-Americans.

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And the federal McCarran-Walter Act did the same for Korean and Japanese immigrants in 1952.

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Well after popular revulsion at Nazi racial practices cast eugenics in an unfavorable light, the United States continued its preference for immigrants from northwestern Europe, as in the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

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