Talk:Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

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INA
the INA deals with much more than terrorism. Terrorism is such an minor part of this article. Perhaps somebody with a bit of expertise could fill the readers in about other provisions? Taco325i 05:16, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I am leaning over a textbook that says this law was enacted in 1965. What gives?

-> the INA was amended in 1965. However, this is not the only change-- it has been subject to almost 100 amendments since its original enactment in 1952.

Size and scope
This article seems to only deal with the immigration aspect of the law. As amended, the law contains the information regarding all forms of visas, immigrant and non-immigrant. It also specifies the ineligibilities for entry to the US, and the requirements to attain citizenship, be it jus soli or otherwise. I think we need to split up background into history and background. I'll get started on it tomorrow or so, but any help would be great. References to 8 USC, CFR Title 22 and 7 & 9 FAM will be useful. Hwonder  talk   contribs  23:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

The speculative "enforcement" section seems like someone's political commentary. Why isn't Ho Chi Minh listed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.127.178.114 (talk) 20:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Merger with 1965
I don't see a good reason to merge in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This article refers to 1952 legislation, and the 1965 act was entirely separate, and very different. -Will Beback · † · 01:28, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * There is no good reason to merge this with the naturalization act because a crucial part of the immigration act of 1965 is that it opened up more ability to immigrate into the U.S. vs. the restrictions that were in place. the 1965 act also has to do more in part of allowing refugees to come in as a part of the new legislation —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.54.68.74 (talk • contribs).

Currently, a reader who is trying to learn something about this topic will become confused - so something should definitely be done about this. There are a number of things that should be separated clearly here. Firstly, the Immigration and Nationality Act is a current body of codified law (the result of all its amendments), for instance see USCIS (their link to the statutes seems to be dead right now) or U.S. Code collection. Then, there are the major historical versions corresponding to the legislative activities: the Immigration_Act_of_1924, the Immigration_and_Nationality_Act as enacted in 1952, and its major amendments of the Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965. The casual reader will be most interested in what the Act is now and what it means before he/she delves into how it evolved and what its historical versions were, but that information is certainly important and should be retained - so outright merging would be too extreme. Probably the simplest way to accomplish this, would be to have the major link Immigration_and_Nationality_Act contain an overview of the current law and its abridged history with links to the existing articles about the historic legislation of 1924, 1952, and 1965. Dr.007 18:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Immigration and Nationality Act
I think that the Immigration and Nationality Services Act should NOT merge into the Immigration and Nationality Act section. The Immigration and Nationality Services Act is supposed to be undoing the quotas made in 1924. The Immigration and Nationality Act is too broad of a category for this to belong in.

G4RF13LDN1NJ4 03:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Legislative History contradictory?
Currently, the Legislative History section in the sidebar includes:


 * - Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1952
 * - Vetoed by President Harry S. Truman on June 25, 1952

This doesn't make sense. Why (and how) would Truman sign into law something he just vetoed?

From the main text, it's clear Truman vetoed the law. Is the "Signed into law" bullet point false?


 * The veto was overridden. 72.200.151.15 (talk) 14:16, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Immigration to the U.S.
— Assignment last updated by Bernie1924 (talk) 18:16, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

"Jewish interests" seems kinda important
So I'm no expert on this act, that's why I'm looking at the Wikipedia article of it. But maybe we should elaborate on the sections about "Jewish interests" and what that means exactly? Gavv523 (talk) 05:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)