Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Luce–Celler Act of 1946

This act is not noteworthy because the act was just symbolic—the immigration quotas were for 100 people each. It doesn't deserve an article of its own. The current article misleads—the last sentence is the crucial part—the bill was a token grant of rights.

See http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm 1946   ...    The Luce-Cellar Act extends the right to become naturalized citizens to Filipinos and Asian Indians. The immigration quota is 100 people a year.

I tried to dig up secondary sources on the act to correct the article, and realized how non-notable it was:


 * 1) The govt. immigration agency's (CIS) website : http://www.uscitizenship.info/ins-usimmigration-insoverview.html on the history of US immigration laws does not mention this act in a lengthy summary.
 * 2) The official US historian's site (from the Department of State) does not mention this act, though it does mention the 1952 immigration act in the milestones of the 1945-52 period (http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952).
 * 3) The PBS timeline on US immigration (using a different source than any of the above) does not include this act (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/foreducators_lesson_plan_03.html)
 * 4) Nor does this timeline of immigration laws from http://www.unc.edu/~perreira/198timeline.html maintained by Krista M. Perreira, a CPC faculty fellow at University of North Carolina (see http://www.cpc.unc.edu/people/fellows?person=kperreira). One has to burrow deeper to get to a one-line summary of the act. Once we get to the subpages where every law is noted, we see this: "- Luce- Celler bill grants right of naturalization and small immigration quotas to Asian Indians and Filipinos."
 * 5) This kind of an article has real consequences; enotes has already copied us (http://www.enotes.com/topic/Luce%E2%80%93Celler_Act_of_1946).

PS: Even those who oppose immigration, granted a source with an agenda, do not mention this act: (http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/facts/research_us_laws/). For 1946 we see: "Procedures were adopted to facilitate immigration of foreign-born wives, fiance(e)s, husbands, and children of U.S. armed forces personnel." That is not the Luce-Celler act. It is hard to see why FAIR would fail to mention a notable immigration act, given their agenda. Ajoykt (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2012 (UTC)