New immigration laws fixed the annual quota of immigrants at 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere, without establishing national quotas, and at 170,000 from the rest of the world, not more than 20,000 to come from any one country. This spurred a new wave of largely non-European immigration; by 1985, only 10 percent of immigrants would be of European origin, in contrast to 90 percent in 1965.
