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Immigrantion Events
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Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rules that Congress alone can regulate immigration. These were appealed to the Supreme Court, which struck them down in the 'Passenger Cases' of 1849, ruling that: 1) although the Constitution said nothing about immigration directly, it was clearly 'foreign commerce,' which the Constitution explicitly reserved to Congress; and 2) Congress's jurisdiction was preemptive so that even in the absence of federal. -
Chinese and Irish
Central Pacific railroad hires Chinese laborers and the Union Pacific hires Irish Laborers to construct the first Transcontinental railroad. Transcontinental Railroad began in 1863 and is completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines meet at Promontory Summit, Utah (May 10, 1869). -
Burlingame Treaty
The Burlingame Treaty is revised and Chinese immigration is suspened. The new treaty allowed the American government to formulate measures to ensure the protection of those rights and privileges. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese. It was the moment when the golden doorway of admission to the United States began to narrow and initiated a thirty-nine-year period of successive exclusions of certain kinds of immigrants, 1882-1921. -
Organic Act of 1900
The act granted US citizenship to every person born in Hawaii before its 1989 Annexation. This included Japanese and Chinese Ancestry. -
Mexican Revolution
The revolution cause thousands of Mexicans to cross the US-Mexican border. The Mexican Revolution spread throughout the country and took on deep social and economic, rather than merely political ramifications. -
Immigration Act
This denies the entry to immigrants from Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands. This was also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act. -
First Quota Act
The law that limits the number of immigrants from certain Countries. This became a law that went over Wilson's veto. However, this law did accomplished 2 things. First it reduced the total number of immigrants coming to this country. Second, it favored and stimulated the immigration of Protestant northwestern Europeans and excluded most of the Catholic southern and eastern Europeans. -
US Border Patrol
The establishment of the US Border Patrol. Congress passed the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924, which established U.S. Border Patrol for securing the borders. The Border Patrol expanded to about 450 officers in 1925. -
Magnuson Immigration Act
This act allowed Chinese to become U.S. Citizens. After China became an ally during World War II, the exclusion laws proved to be an embarrassment and were finally repealed and was called Magnuson Immigration Act. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
The INA is divided into titles, chapters, and sections. Although it stands alone as a body of law, the Act is also contained in the United States Code -
Japanese Relocation
When President Gerald Ford repeals executive order 9066 proclaiming that the relocation of Japanese was a national mistake. -
Refugee Act
The primary goal of the Refugee Act of 1980, was to bring U.S. law into compliance with the requirements of international law. The act also allowed persecuted individuals to seek Asylum in U.S. -
Immigration Act
This increases the limit on legal immigration and revises grounds for exculsion and deportation. Also the Immigration Act authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, -
Terrorist Attack
After the attack this had prompt US Department of Defense to expand Military support along the borders. Also the military generally provides support to law enforcement and immigration authorities along the southern border. -
Secure Fence Act
This authorizes fencing along the US-Mexican border. It was constructed to be 700miles of double-layered fencing.
