Immigration

Immigration Timeline

By sarahboo919

  • Anti-immigration parties

    Anti-immigration parties
    Timeline of U.S. ImmagrantsSpecific anti-immigration parties arise,especially targeting the Irish.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    Timeline of U.S. ImmigrationChinese become the targeted minority withstoning and mobbing leading to the “ChineseExclusion Act.”

  • Immigration Act

    Immigration Act
    Timeline of U.S. ImmigrationImmigration Act eliminates race, creedand/or nationality as criteria for entrance replaced byfamily reunification. This opens a floodgate resultingin increased ethnic diversity in the U.S.

  • Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)

    Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
    Timeline of U.S. ImmigrationImmigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)grants amnesty to illegal immigrants who enteredthe U.S. before January 1982 and to certain seasonalagricultural illegal immigrants. The act requiresemployers to attest to their employees’ immigrationstatus and makes it illegal to knowingly hire orrecruit unauthorized immigrants. However, theserequirements are not enforced and largely ignoredwith rising labor demands.

  • Immigration Act of 1990

    Immigration Act of 1990
    Timeline of U.S. ImmigrationImmigration Act of 1990 responds to labordemands by increasing legal immigration by 10 percent and tripling employer-based immigration.