Migrant packet

Today in class, we worked by ourselves and read a packet that we took notes from. I learned that the U.N. sets quotas each year. In 1924, 2 percent of the countries native number could immigrate each year. In 1965, quotas from individual countries were replaced with hemisphere quotas. 170,000 from the Eastern hemisphere, and 120,000 from the Western hemisphere could immigrate. A global quota in 1978 was set, of 290,000, which is 20,000 in each country. In 1990, the global quota was raised to 700,000. I had no idea that here was an international quota. I thought each country decided that for themselves. I found this very interesting because it made me learn something new.