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Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany at the time the Hart-Celler Act was proposed.
Prior to the Hart-Celler Act, new immigration quotas were based on how many people from each country lived in the US in 1890.
The quota system in place in the early 1960s was abolished by the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.
The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system, which favored immigrants from northern Europe.