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Naturalization Act
Individuals were allowed to apply for citizenship, only if they were " a free white person, being of good person, and living in the United States for 2 years." It also included any children under 21 years old, no matter the birthplace. -
Steerage Act
Information about immigrats on board ships must be collected by captins, for customs. -
14th Amendment 1868
The 14th Amendment established that children that were born on U.S. soil were audimaticly citizens.
In Arizona Ancor Babies are used to get citizenship to illegal immigrants from Mexico. This is when the illeagle residance purposly give birth to their children in the U.S. knowing they will recieve U.S citizenship. -
Naturalization Act of 1870
Restricted to all immigration to the U.S to whites only and people of african decent. This act supported anti-asian immigration. -
The Page Act
Prohibited any "unwanted individuals" from Asia to immigrate to the United States. Unwanted immigrants were definied as postitutes, criminals, and asian workers -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The U.S. prohibited all immiragtion of Chinese labors. Many Chinese people who were immigrating for other reasons found it difficult to prove that they were not workers. The law was driven by racial concerns. -
Immigration Act of 1903
This act dealt with existing immigration laws, but narrowed the admittable immigrants. Naming convicted fellons, prostitutes, idiots, beggers and extreamist as "unadmisable". -
Naturalization Act of 1906
Made it a requirement for immigrants to speak English in order to gain citizenship for the United States. -
Cable Act
A federal law made so that married woman could take her husbands nationality. -
1924 Immigration Act
This act limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the U.S. by an annual limit for different countries. The only people who fell under the "non- quota" immmigrants were unmarried children and wives. -
Luce–Celler Act of
Ended discrimination against Indian Americans and Filipinos. It also allowed the new citizens to own land.
This act also increased the quota for their country. -
The Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA, of 1986
addressed the illegal immigration problem by making employers asses the citizenship of workers, and penalized emploryed who allowed undocumented citizens to work for them. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Set the guidlines for deportation and visa issuses on the border lines. It touched on both legal and illegal immigration, and the overall potrol of the borders. It went over the highened bodered enforcement and how to proceede with deportation. -
Real I.D Act
states that a state must verify the immigration status of a person before issuing a start licence, and I.D.'s. It also changed visa limits for temporary workers. -
Arizona SB 1070
Allowed lawenforcement with resonable suspition to ask a person for proper documentation. It made it a misdemenor to not have proper documentation on your persons for all aliens 14 years and older. This created many waves in the communities of Arizona, including boycotts.
