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Congress legalizes Contract Labor
Congress legalizes the importation of contract laborers. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
suspended immigration of Chinese laborers under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. -
US Japan Gentleman's Agreement
The United States and Japan form a “Gentleman’s Agreement” in which Japan ends issuance of passports to laborers and the U.S. agrees not to prohibit Japanese immigration. -
The US enter's WWI
The U.S. enters World War I and anti-German sentiment swells at home. The names of schools, foods, streets, towns, and even some families, are changed to sound less Germanic. -
Ozawa v. United States
The Supreme Court rules that first-generation Japanese are ineligible for citizenship and cannot apply for naturalization. -
National Origins Act.
It's a federal law that restricted immigrants from migrating to the United States through quotas. This decreased the amount of immigrants coming into the United States by a large amount. Immigration visas were given to only 2 percent of the immigrants. -
Bracero Act
The Bracero Act grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, 4.6 million contracts were signed, with many individuals returning several times on different contracts, making it the largest U.S. contract labor program. -
Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt signs order authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” These area's would later be call the Japanese Interment Camps. -
The Magnuson Act
Federal legislation that lifted a government ban on Chinese immigration -
The Immigration and Nationality Act
the act allowed individuals of all races to be eligible for naturalization. -
Immigration and naturalization act of 1964
It abolishes the earlier quota structure based on national origin and creates in its place a new immigration policy that reunites families and attracts new skilled workers. -
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
the act helped legalize illegal aliens residing in the U.S. unlawfully since 1982, also providing legal guidelines on hiring undocumented citizens -
Trump enacts family separation at the Mexican border.
the presidential move will again separate parents from their kid who crosses the U.S/Mexico border. This act caused a national public outcry with public protest and new reels.
