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Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote -
Homestead Act (1862)
Passed to Encourage West by U.S. Congress offered to sell public lands to citizens and to immigrants.The law was designed to attract people to settle vast stretches of territory in the Midwest and West, toward Migration. -
Naturalization Act (1906)
Required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens. It established the federal government as the arbiter of naturalization policy. It created the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, which provided for the first uniform naturalization laws in the country. -
Arizona's a State
Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912. Arizona was the last of the 48 conjoined states to enter. -
Immigration Act (1924)
Limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country. -
Bracero Program
A series of laws and diplomatic agreements, between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. -
Mendez v. Westminster
Federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. It ruled, that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional. -
Operation Wetback (1954)
Operation Wetback was a system of tactical control and cooperation within the U.S. Border Patrol and alongside the Mexican government. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Immigration Reform & Control Act
Required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status, made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly, legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants, and egalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982 and had resided there continuously with the penalty of a fine, back taxes due, and admission of guilt. -
Immigration Act (1990)
The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries. -
Minute Men Project
Minuteman Project begins recruiting civilians to patrol the US-Mexico border -
Secure Fense Act (2006)
The Secure Fence Act goal is to help secure America’s borders to decrease illegal entry, drug trafficking, and security threats by building 700 miles of physical barriers along the Mexico-United States border. U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act. -
SB1070
In April 2010, Arizona signed into law the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB1070). The act was controversal due to its aim to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants. -
Deferred Action for Children Arrivals
U.S. President Barack Obama announced changes to DACA which would expand it to include illegal immigrants who entered the country before 2010, eliminate the requirement that applicants be younger than 31 years old, and lengthen the renewable deferral period to three years.
