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prohibited Chinese workers from entering the United States.
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proposed limiting the number of immigrants to be accepted from each country.
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allowed for the admission of more than 400,000 refugees left homeless by World War II and the imposition of Soviet communism in Eastern Europe
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replaced the old quotas with a set of seven preference categories
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allowed refugees to enter America because they are unable or unwilling to return to their original country because of persecution on the account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion."
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is an effort by Congress to strengthen and streamline U.S. immigration laws.