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Pennsylvania Enacts Oath of Alliance for German Immigrants
As German immigrants kept coming to Pennsylvania, the Governor of Pennsylvania came up with an oath for those Germans. The oath just stated that the Germans would follow what King George order for the people and to be loyal to the King. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Results in US Acquiring Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California and Parts of Utah and Nevada
Once the Mexican-American War ended, the US got new states. The people living in those states were citizens of Mexico but the US allowed those residents to become citizens of the United States. Those residents also got to stay where they were. They only thing that changed was who those lands belonged to. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 Picture:
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Ozawa v. US Supreme Court Decides Japanese Are Ineligible for Citizenship
During this time only ‘Free white persons’ and ‘Aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent’ were granted citizenship. Since Japanese fell under neither of those options, they were not given citizenship. Those who were granted citizenship before this date had now gotten their citizenship taken away. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
US Supreme Court Decides in US v. Bhagat Singh Thind: Asian Indians don’t qualify for Naturalization
Thind hade applied for citizenship but his application was appealed to the Supreme Court, which declared that ‘Caucasian’ was similar to the meaning of ‘white.’ Many Indians who were granted citizenship had their citizenship revoked and they also lost their properties.
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Magnuson Immigration Act of 1943
This act allowed Chinese to become US Citizens after China became an ally to the US during World War 2. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Bracero Program Ends; Undocumented Laborers Continue to Enter the US
The US did not renew the Bracero Program with Mexico yet Mexico wished to continue the program. Laborers from Mexico continued to enter the US Illegally now and were before the program ended. Some of the labors came to eh US not through the program but on their own accord in search of work. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023http://www.unco.edu/cohmlp/pdfs/Bracero_Program_PowerPoint.pdf -
Plyler v. Doe Overturns Texas Law Disallowing State Funds fro Illegal Immigrants
This allowed children of non-citizens or even non-citizen children to receive an education when Texas laws tried to deny them the chance. The Texas law tried to have public schools charge school tuition to parents of non-citizen children. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/plyler-v-doe-still-guaranteeing-unauthorized-immigrant-childrens-right-attend-us-public -
Amerasian Homecoming Act Allows For Children of American Troops in Vietnam to Immigrate to the U.S.
Children whose father was an American troop but child of a Vietnams mother were granted the chance to immigrate from Vietnam to America. In Vietnam, these children were abused, discriminated, lived in poverty or were homeless. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
California’s Proposition 187: Approved by Voters but Rejected by U.S. District Court
The District court declared that Proposition 187 was unconstitutional since it was created to deny health care, education and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. This proposition would have caused to have the people state their immigration status. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
AFL-CIO Labor Union Supports Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S. Illegally
The AFL-CIO grants amnesty to the millions of hard-working people who contribute to their communities/work yet are denied human rights because of legal status. These member’s statuses is fixed to permanent residents and are eligible for naturalization. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
“Minutemen Project” Begins Recruiting Civilians to Patrol US-Mexico Border
In Arizona, the ‘Minutemen’ look out around the US-Mexico border in search of immigrants trying to cross the border illegally. The founder of this group is named James Gilchrist and says many people have volunteered to help out from around the country. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Secure Fence Act: Fencing is Allowed Along US-Mexican Border
This act allows the building of a double-layered fence long the US-Mexican Border that is said to be about 700 miles. This is a form of stopping illegal immigrants, terrorists and contraband from crossing and coming to the US illegally. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona’s Law to Penalize a Business Who Hires Undocumented Workers
Governor Janet Napolitano signed a law for Arizona that prohibits Arizona businesses from hiring undocumented workers. If any business is caught hiring illegal workers, the business will be penalized. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 Picture:
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President Obama Signs Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
DACA allows hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children before the age of 16 and have been in the U.S. for at least 5 years to stay in the country without fear of deportation and a chance to get a job. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
President Obama Stated Executive Action for Prevention of Deportation of Millions of Immigrants
This plan would allow about 4.4 million parents of U.S. citizens to remian in the U.S. and get a chance of applying to jobs legally and join American society. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 Picture: https://localtvkstu.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/s040047585-300.jpg?w=770
