Immigration and Nationality Act

…term “public charge” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), which would greatly reduce the number of immigrants granted admission to or legal permanent residency in the United States, was not unreasonable. Scholarly analyses of her time on the Seventh Circuit found her to be among the most conservative judges…

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA; also called the McCarran-Walter Act) sought to standardize the patchwork of region- or race-based quotas that were in place at the time.

…his opinion, Roberts characterized the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA; 1952) as giving the president “broad discretion” over enforcing its provisions and concluded that the order was within the president’s power given the general authority granted by the INA, the absence of any explicit mention (in the order itself) of…