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Massachusetts hosts aliens
Massachusetts put in place a law where citizens must seek permission from authorities to host any alien within their own lands. -
Quakers become illegal aliens
Imprisonment, banishment, whippings, and sometimes execution of Quakers occurred. Laws restricted Quakers, but they still entered the country. -
Province Laws of Massachusetts
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Pennsylvania Oath of Allegiance
Illegal German immigrants who could not show proper paperwork had to swear oath of allegiance to the king. -
British Parliament enacts Plantation Act
Serverd as a model for the U.S. Naturalization Act -
First U.S. Alien Naturalization Act
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Sedition and Alien Acts
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Foreign Slave Trade becomes illegal
50,000 slaves become illegal aliens -
Great Wave of Immigration began
over 10 million immigrants came from europe -
Congress receives new power
Supreme Court ruled that Congress alone can regulate immigration. -
Congressional attempt to centralize immigration control
A commissioner of immigration is appointed by the president -
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State immigration laws become unconstitutional
Beginning of direct federal control of immigration -
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First Great Wave of European Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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First Federal Administrative Agency for the Regulation of Immigration
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Anarchist Exclusion Act Enacted
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"Mounted Inspectors"
Border patrol on horseback assigned because of Congress -
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
Courts ruled Asian Indians do not qualify for Naturalization because they are not white. -
Border Patrol Established
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Immigration Reform and Control Act
Grants legal status to qualifying illegal aliens who entered the US before Jan. 1, 1982. -
Immigration Act of 1990
Increases limit on legal immigration and revises grounds for exclusion and deportation.
