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- %4 NATION, Page 37American NotesIMMIGRATIONA Wider Door
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- The tired, poor, huddled masses seeking to get into the U.S.
- will now have a better chance if they also possess sought-after
- job skills. In a landmark revision of the nation's immigration
- laws, the second in five years, congressional conferees decided
- to raise the number of foreigners admitted annually to 700,000
- starting in 1992, and to 675,000 after 1995 -- a significant
- increase over the current 490,000. The quota for newcomers with
- needed professional skills, such as scientists and engineers,
- would rise sharply, from 54,000 to 140,000.
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- The new bill would continue to give an overwhelming
- preference to those with close relatives in the U.S. To the
- delight of human-rights activists, the proposed measure would
- also lift the McCarthy-era blanket bans on Communists and
- homosexuals. And in another break with current practice, the
- Department of Health and Human Services has been empowered, at
- its discretion, to end the ban on AIDS-infected foreigners
- seeking to enter the U.S.
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