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The Chinese exclusion law
banned Chinese immigration. Also excluded were persons convicted of political offenses, lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become public charges. The law placed a head tax on each immigrant. -
bureau of immagration
The Bureau of Immigration was established under the Treasury Department to federally administer all immigration laws (except the Chinese Exclusion Act) -
Naturalization process
the naturalization process was created. Knowing English was a must -
added to exclusion list
illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants, were all added to the exclusionn list. -
act of 1929
Annual Quotas are made permanent -
refugee act
The first U.S. policy was adopted for admitting persons fleeing persecution. It permitted 205,000 refugees to enter the United States over two years (later increased to 415,000). -
expansion
the grounds for exclusion, deportation, and subversives were expanded. aliens were required to report to their adress regularly -
people limits
they seperated the eastern and westerrn hemisphere and put a limit on each of them. -
combination
combined the eastern and werstern hemisphere and the celing was put at 290,000 -
refugee act refined
The Refugee Act removed refugees as a preference category and established clear criteria and procedures for their admission. It also reduced the world-wide ceiling for immigrants from 290,000 to 270,000. -
reveiweing immigration laws
increased limit on immigration, revised the rules for deportation and the exclusion list, -
Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act
designed to alleviate some of the backlog of certain family and work visas and to provide additional possibilities, also to provide additional possibilities -
border control improvement
this called for more border patrol agents and to improve the infrastructures along both north and south borders.
