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What did the Immigration Act of 1965 do

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This Act got rid of the earlier quota system and established a new policy to reunite immigrant families and attract skill labour to the u.s.
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It abolished the quota system, which limited the amount of immigrants that the US would receive for each year from each country/area.
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