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Immigration

By Bdryer

  • Pilgrims

    In the Early 1620's roughly 100 people - known as the pilgrims - migrated to the Masachusetts area in search for Religious Freedom. Saomething they could not find in Europe. Later they were followed by another 20,000 people.

  • Slaves

    By 1680, over 7,000 African Americans were forced to America for slavery in the state of Virginia.Congress outlawed the importation of slaves in 1808 - by then nearly over 700,000 slaves had been transported to America.

  • Alien Naturalization Act

    The first rules to be followed by all of the United States in the granting of national citizenship. The 1790 Act also limited naturalization to persons of 'good moral character.' And the law required a set period of residence in the United States prior to naturalization, specifically two years in the country and one year in the state of residence when applying for citizenship

  • California Gold Rush

    By mid- 1800's nearly 25,000 asains migrated to America because of the news of the California Gold Rush.

  • The beginning of an Anti-Life

    In the 1850s, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic American Party (also called the Know-Nothings) tried to severely curb immigration, and even ran a candidate, former U.S. president Millard Fillmore in the presidential election of 1956.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    One of the first significant pieces of federal legislation aimed at restricting immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese laborers from coming to America. Californians had agitated for the new law, blaming the Chinese, who were willing to work for less, for a decline in wages.

  • Ellis Island

    President Benjamin Harris designated Ellis Island as an official federal immigration station. From 1892 - 1954 12 million immigrants entered the United states through this station.

  • U.S. / Mexico Border Patrol

    In March 1915, Congress authorized a separate group of Mounted Guards, often referred to as Mounted Inspectors. Most rode on horseback, but a few operated cars and even boats.Mounted watchmen of the U.S. Immigration Service patrolled the border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings as early as 1904, but their efforts were irregular and undertaken only when resources permitted.

  • Quotas for Immigration

    Legislatures begin enforcing requirements for immigrants - ersons over 16 had to pass a literacy test. Created a quota system that restricted entry to 2 percent of the total number of people of each nationality in America as of the 1890 national census–a system that favored immigrants from Western Europe–and prohibited immigrants from Asia.

  • Immigration and Nationality Act

    This act did away with quotas based on nationality and allowed Americans to sponsor relatives from their countries of origin. As a result of this act and subsequent legislation, the nation experienced a shift in immigration patterns.

  • Unauthorized Immigration Population

    For the first time the US Immigration and Naturalization Service developed the first detailed national estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States. Those estimates indicated that the unauthorized resident population was 3.4 million.

  • Terrorist

    After September 11th the atacks on America became surreal. Protection on borders and the allowing of people crossing over to America cam to a hault in order to protect America from anymore terrorists attacks.

  • The Secure Fence Act

    The Act authorizes the construction of [700] hundreds of miles of double-layered fencing along the nation's Southern border. It also directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take action to stop the unlawful entry of undocumented immigrants, terrorists, and contraband into the U.S. using both personnel and surveillance technology. This really added a legit divider and controversys with Mexico and immigration.

  • SB 1070

    Under Arizona's new law, it will be a state crime to be in the country illegally, and legal immigrants will be required to carry paperwork proving their status. Arizona police will generally be required to question anyone they 'reasonably suspect' of being undocumented -- a provision that critics argue will lead to widespread racial profiling, but that supporters insist will give authorities the flexibility to enforce existing immigration laws

  • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996

    The law includes provisions that would deny most forms of public assistance to most legal immigrants for five years or until they attain citizenship.