What Is The Impact Of This Act?

This Act had a large impact then and received lots of attention from many people including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman (the Act was passed over his veto) and Jimmy Carter. 

In Washington on April 27, President Eisenhower asked for Congress to re-examine the McCarran Walter Act​​​​​​​.

He said, “with a view to achieving legislation which would be fair and just to all." Eisenhower had received many complaints that it contains “many serious and inequitable restrictions.”. “While I recognize that the act contains some provisions which represent a liberalizing influence in the field of immigration law and that a fundamental revision of a statue can not be approached without searching analysis, I suggest that a study of the operation of many of the administrative provisions of the immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 should be immediately undertaken, with an invitation to all concerned to testify regarding the provisions of which they complain,” writes Dwight D. Eisenhower.

This Act also embarked many protests, as seen from the picture on the home page. People held up signs that said "Down with the Green Paper" or "Immigration Built this Nation". The impact of the act being instituted actually brought people together, and to talk about a cause that still affects us to this day. It affected people because it brought them together to fight the common enemy - discrimination towards immigrants, which is something that happens much too often.