Author Question: One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was chain ... (Read 89 times)

nelaaney · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

One unintended result of the immigration legislation signed by President Johnson in 1965 was chain migration, under which

A) more persons than anticipated from Africa and Asia with specified technical skills or education applied to immigrate.
B) some immigrants would reapply for residence repeatedly, making it hard to send them back to their home countries when their visas expired.
C) people from certain regions of foreign countries uncovered loopholes in the law allowing many more people than expected from certain villages, for example, to immigrate.
D) people repeatedly applied for immigration from different countries until they were successful, using fraudulent documentation that the U.S. immigration system was ill-prepared to evaluate.
E) immigrants would petition for their relatives to come to the United States.

Question 2

Migration through which entire extended families established themselves in the U.S. is known as

A) familial migration.
B) migration at large.
C) mass migration.
D) migration quotas.
E) chain migration.