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Why did Congress exempt some refugees from the immigration quotas when it passed the Immigration Reform Act of 1990? Do you think the exemption was fair?

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Its stated purpose was to "change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization." The law increased annual limits on immigration to the United States, revised visa category limits to increase skilled labor immigration, and expanded. The effect of the Immigration Act of 1990 was an increase in immigration — between 1990 and 2000 the foreign-born percentage of the U.S. I doo not think it was fair.

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