Is the McCarran-Walter Act an underappreciated civil rights bill?
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« on: February 07, 2019, 11:10:35 PM »
Passed in 1952, it removed the "alien ineligible to citizenship" category that prevented Asian Americans from gaining US citizenship.

However, it did some bad things too. Members of communist parties still aren't allowed to become US citizens.
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