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Jia Lynn Yang, a deputy national editor at The New York Times, was previously deputy national security editor at The Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Trump and Russia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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5800 One Mighty and Irresistible Tide The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965, by Jia Lynn Yang (read 3 Sep 2022) This 2020 book details the effort to allow immigration into the United States untied to the percentage of Americans present in the country, which by the 1924 American law prevented much immigration of non-Europeans. The 1965 law has greatly increased legal immigration, especially of people not from Europe. It obviously was desirable to get away from racially-biased immigration, though whether the great increase in immigration to the country is desirable some will question.… (more)
 
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