Lyndon B. Johnson

===Immigration===
{{Further|Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965}}
[[File:President Lyndon B. Johnson Signing of the Immigration Act of 1965 (02) - restoration1.jpg|thumb|President Johnson signs the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]] as U.S. Senators [[Edward Kennedy]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy]], and others look on]]
The sweeping [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]] reformed the country's immigration system and removed all national origins quotas dating from the 1920s. The annual rate of inflow doubled between 1965 and 1970, and doubled again by 1990, with dramatic increases from [[Asia]] and [[Latin America]], including Mexico.<ref name="'70s"/> Scholars give Johnson little credit for the law, which was not one of his priorities; he had supported the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952|McCarren–Walter Act]] of 1952, which proved unpopular with reformers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lerner|first=Mitchell B.|title=A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxkcKYMWEcEC&pg=PA211|year=2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|pages=211–17|access-date=October 25, 2015|isbn=978-1-4443-3389-3}}</ref>