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Illegal Imigration Timeline

By SamanthaTroutt

  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts
    The General Court of Massachusettes stated that noone could host an illegal alien without the permission of the authorities.

  • First Illegal Aliens

    First Illegal Aliens
    Foreign slave trade becomes illegal because of this 50,000 slaves become the first illegal aliens. The slaves were smuggled into the United States.

  • Decade

    Decade
    In the decade of the 1930s, 599,000 immigrants are in the United States. That is four times as many in the decade before. Illegal Immigration starts to expand.

  • Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Guadalupe Hidalgo
    The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American war. This gave 80,000 Mexicans who already lives in the united States citizenship.

  • Congress Regulates Immigration

    Congress Regulates Immigration
    After Massachusetts and New York passed laws about taxing immigrants the Supreme Court rules that Congress would be in charge of immigration.

  • Move Westward

    Move Westward
    Congress offered to sell land to citizens and immigrants at 1.25$ per acre to less if they move westward.

  • Immigration Act of 1917

    Immigration Act of 1917
    Immigration Act of 1917 denies ectry to immigrants from Pacific Islands and Easter Asia

  • Cuba

    Cuba
    Cuba allows 125,000 Cubans to illegally depart for the United States

  • Proof

    Proof
    Legislature passes a law requiring proof of citizenship to get a drivers license.

  • English Immersion

    English Immersion
    Voters endorsed a requirement for English immersion in schools. This bannished bilingual education.

  • Minuteman Project

    Minuteman Project
    Volunteers help the "minuteman project", a month to "assist" the U.S. border patrol in its search for undocumented immigrants.

  • Marching

    Marching
    20,000 Latinos march 24th street in Phoenix to protest federal legislation that would criminalize illegal immigrants.

  • Spiked Interest

    Spiked Interest
    Officer Nick Erfle from Phoenix was killed by a fugitive who was an illegal immigrant. Spiked interest to illegal immigration.

  • Sweep

    Sweep
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio begins conducting immigration sweeps

  • Lawsuit

    Lawsuit
    The United States Department of Justice files a lawsuit on the SB 1070 bill; however, the case is still pending.

  • Proposition 200

    Proposition 200
    Proposition 200 approved which denies purblic benefits to people in the country illegally.