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The Naturalization Act of 1870
The Naturalization Act of 1870 was a United States law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fake practices. It is also for permitting "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent" to become naturalized citizens of the United States. Other non-whites were not included in this act. It was passed by the 41st United States Congress and signed into law by President Ulyses S. Grant on July 14, 1870. -
The Page Act of 1875
The Page Act of 1875 was the first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a forced laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country. -
Chinese Exclusion Act.
It was a U.S law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following the revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. The revisions allowed the U.S to suspend Chinese immigration, a band that was intended to last 10 years. -
The Act of 1891
Established a commisioner of Immigratio in the Treaty Departement. -
Geary Act
It was a U.S law passed in 1892. It extends the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by adding onours new requirements. The law required all Chinese residents of the U.S to carry a resident permit. If you didn't carry them, and they ask you for it you get departed back to where your from. -
Immigration Act of 1903
also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, was a law of the United States regulating immigration. It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. It had little impact and its provisions related to anarchists were expanded in the Immigration Act of 1918. -
Naturalization Act of 1906
signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt that revised the law from 1870 and required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens. The bill was passed on June 29, 1906, and took effect September 27, 1906. It was modified by the Immigration Act of 1990. verification of arrival names and details of wives and children. -
Immigration Act of 1917
This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective”, polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate. -
Immigration Act of 1918
also known as the Dillingham-Hardwick Act.During World War I, officials at the Department of Justice were frustrated in the attempts to suppress anarchist activity by their inability to convict even self-professed anarchists under current legislation, notably the Immigration Act of 1903 and the Immigration Act of 1917. -
Emergency Quota Act
restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy" because it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits. The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents. -
Immigration Act of 1924
was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. -
Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943
Also known as the Magnuson Act, it was an immigration legislation propsed bu U.S Representative. It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, restricted immigration into the U.S. and is codified under Title 8 of the United States Code. The Act governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
The Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year, with a per-country-of-origin quota, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, nor "special immigrants" -
Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act
is a United States federal law enacted on November 2, 1966. Passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, the law applies to any native or citizen of Cuba who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959 and has been physically present for at least one year; and is admissible to the United States as a permanent resident. [edit] -
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
enacted November 6, 1986, also Simpson-Mazzoli Act, is an Act of Congress which reformed United States immigration law.required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status.
made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit unauthorized immigrants.
legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants.
legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982 and had resided there continuously with the penalty of a fine, back taxes due, and admission of guil -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
years unless they obtain a pardon. If they are in the United States for 365 days or more, they must stay outside the United States for ten years unless they obtain a waiver. If they return to the United States without the pardon, they may not apply for a waiver for a period of ten years. -
REAL ID Act
was an Act of Congress that modified U.S. federal law pertaining to security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver's licenses and identification cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism.The law set forth certain requirements for state driver's licenses and ID cards to be accepted by the federal government for "official purposes", as defined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. -
Arizona SB 1070
is a legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at the time of passage was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history. It has received national and international attention and has spurred considerable controversy. U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days to register with the U.S. government, and to have registration documents in their possession at all times. -
Alabama HB 56
is an anti-illegal immigration bill, signed into law in the U.S. state of Alabama in June 2011. As of 2011, it is regarded as the nation's strictest anti-illegal immigration law, tougher than Arizona SB 1070.The law, written in large part by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and cosponsored by Alabama Representative Micky Hammon and Alabama State Senator Scott Beason, was passed by the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate with widespread legislative support.
