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1790 Naturalization Act
-Become a citezen if you are a free white male and considered a
¨good person¨ and lived in the U.S. for 2 years -
1864 Immigration Act
-added position, comissioner of Immagration
-Report to Secretary of State
-Labor contracts for immagrants
-Immagrants exempt from military service -
1982 Amerasian Immigration Act
An act to provide certain children refugees entering preferitial treatment -
2006 Secure Fence Act
-Bush's effort to refom immagration,
-Homeland Security gains control over U.S-Mexican border
-Construction of physical barriers begins
-Fence reinforcement