3:26 pm ET Aug 26, 2009   On Immigration, Kennedy’s Death Leaves
Leadership Gap      • The 1965 Immigration reform bill DID NOT
eliminate discriminatory national origin quoatas : they were
just changed to a quote of 20000 per nation of origin
(regardless of the relative size of nations). The goal continued
to be reduced Asian immigration: The previous laws based on
favoring nations that already had the most immigrants in USA,
was producing out of control immigration from the Philipines as
Europeans were chosing not to take advantage of their far larger
immigration quotas. The new laws favored both family connections
and education.        Unexpectedly, the 1965 Immigration quota's
were badly framed. The quotas are in effect only in alternate
years since the quota only applies to countries that had 20000
immigrants the previous year. It is easy to figure out why this
turns into an alternate year quota for countires like
Philippines, India etc so in the long run the national origin
quotas have no effect and henc