Bureiko N. Political Factors of Restructuring of Current Immigration Process in the USA.

The thesis presents a research of political factors of current immigration process restructuring in the USA from the period of the immigration policy liberalization in 1965 till its modernization after September 11, 2001. The political changes nature in the US immigration policy is identified taking into consideration the system of existing quotas, which has restricted immigration on the nation origin before 1965, didn't reflect the American society realities of the new period and contradicted the American principle of general equality and democracy. In this regard the implemented immigration reform that launched the liberalization of the immigration process in the USA is thoroughly studied in the paper.