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Weekly Immigration Wire: Kennedy Was Friend to Immigrants

Posted by admin on 8/27/2009


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Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death yesterday was a blow to the immigrant community. For over 40 years, Kennedy was a tireless fighter for immigrant rights and is remembered for many valuable accomplishments, not the least in making possible the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which did away with the national-origin quotas that had been in effect in the US since 1924.

Read more about Ted Kennedy’s immigration work in this week’s Immigration Wire

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