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Beginning of Colonial Immigration; English Settlers Arrive in America
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Importation of African Slaves Begins
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Anti-Quaker Immigration Popular but Quakers still Immigrate
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1717-1769 - 36,000 British Convicts Transported to America after Passage of Transportation Act of 1717
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Pennsylvania’s Immigration Law Ignored by Ship Masters; New Tax and Health Inspections Imposed on Immigrants
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Alien and Sedition Acts Enacted; US President Given Power to Punish and Deport Immigrants; Residency Requirement for Naturalization Increases to 14 Years
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Foreign Slave Trade Becomes Illegal; 50,000 Slaves Become First "Illegal Aliens" in the US
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Supreme Court Rules That Congress Alone Can Regulate Immigration
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Chinese Immigration to the United States Increases During the Gold Rush
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State Immigration Laws Become Unconstitutional; Congress Begins to Bring Immigration Under Direct Federal Control for the First Time
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Mexican Revolution Drives Thousands of Mexicans across the US-Mexican Border
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US Labor Secretary Estimates That over 1,000,000 Mexicans Are in United States Illegally
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Mexican “Repatriation Act” Forces Immigrants in the United States Back to Mexico
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Secure Fence Act Authorizes Fencing along the US-Mexican Border
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President Obama Signs Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to Allow Some Undocumented Immigrants Who Came to the United States as Children to Stay in the Country
