article_snippet: The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 abolished the quota system based on national origin.
article_snippet: National quotas limited the number of people who were allowed immigrate from other countries.
article_snippet: Thanks to the Civil Rights Movement, the immigration policy shifted and became focused on reuniting immigrant families and attracting new labor to the United States.
article_snippet: For nearly two centuries and up until the time Ronald Reagan was president, white European immigrants made up to 80 per cent of the US population.
article_snippet: Shift from immigration to native births: