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U.S. Immigration
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Naturalization Act of 1790
This act allowed for immigrants to become naturalized citizens after two years of living in the United States. -
Naturalization Act of 1795
lengthened required residency to become citizen. -
Naturalization Act of 1798
further lengthened required residency to become citizen, registers white immigrants to establish date of initial residency. -
Naturalization Act of 1870
Created system of controls for the naturilization process and penalties for fraudulent practices -
Page Act of 1875
It was the first act that restricted immigration. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The mass deportation of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1882
It imposed a 50 cent head tax to fund immigration officials. -
Geary Act
This act strengthened the Chinese Exclusion Act -
Naturalization Act of 1906
Requires immigrants to learn English before they can become citizens -
Immigration Act of 1917
Restricted immigration from Asia by creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone" and introduced a reading test for all immigrants over fourteen years of age, with certain exceptions for children, wives, and elderly family members. -
Immigration Act of 1918
It expanded on the provisions of the Anarchist Exclusion Act -
Emergency Quota Act
It restricted annual immigration from a given country to 3% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910 -
Immigration Act of 1924
Targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than religion or ethnicity -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Liberalized immigration from Asia, but it increased the power of the government to deport illegal immigrants suspected of Communist sympathies. -
Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act of 1966
Gave Cuban nationals who enter, or were already present in the United States, legal status. -
Immigration Reform Act
Granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant. -
Immigration Act of 1990
increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 & increased visas by 40% -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief. -
Arizons SB 1070
requires police to determine the immigration status of someone arrested or detained when there is “reasonable suspicion” they are not in the U.S. legally -
Alabama HB 56
The Alabama law requires that if police have "reasonable suspicion" that a person is an immigrant unlawfully present in the United States, in the midst of any legal stop, detention or arrest, to make a similarly reasonable attempt to determine that person's legal status
