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Massachusetts put in place a law where citizens must seek permission from authorities to host any alien within their own lands.
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Imprisonment, banishment, whippings, and sometimes execution of Quakers occurred. Laws restricted Quakers, but they still entered the country.
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Illegal German immigrants who could not show proper paperwork had to swear oath of allegiance to the king.
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Serverd as a model for the U.S. Naturalization Act
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50,000 slaves become illegal aliens
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over 10 million immigrants came from europe
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Supreme Court ruled that Congress alone can regulate immigration.
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A commissioner of immigration is appointed by the president
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Beginning of direct federal control of immigration
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Border patrol on horseback assigned because of Congress
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Courts ruled Asian Indians do not qualify for Naturalization because they are not white.
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Grants legal status to qualifying illegal aliens who entered the US before Jan. 1, 1982.
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Increases limit on legal immigration and revises grounds for exclusion and deportation.
