I think that maybe people are saying different answers because there might have been many such laws. I will mention one example: the Diversity Visa Immigration: it means that people from Eastern Europe have a higher change of obtaining a visa due to a smaller population in the US than the western European Countries.
Most of the scots irish who came to the colonies were farm laborers or tenant farmers who were leaving behind droughts and crop failures
What is most important to Abraham Lincoln was slavery he wanna all the slaves to be free that is so important to him