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The U.S. Confirms the 14th Amendment where everyone born in the United States Gains Citizenship
This gives the right to anyone who immigrated to the U.S. that their children who were born in America were automatically givent citizenship. -
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The Mexican Revolution
The revolution drove thousands of people from Mexico north, to America where they were offered jobs and protection. -
US Congress Authorizes "Mounted Inspectors" Along the US-Mexico Border
Congress ordered mounted guards to patrol the bored in order to prevent illegal immagrants from 1915-1916 -
U.S. Border Patrol Established
Congress passed the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924, officially creating the U.S. Border Patrol for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. -
The Alien Regristration Pact was passed by Congress
This made it illegal for anyone to talk about overhrowing the government. It also recuired all of the alien residents over the age to 14 to register totalling 4,741,971 people in four months. -
Bracero Program brings 5,000,000 Mexican people to work in US farms and railroads
Becuase there was a lack of manpower during WWII, the U.S. brought in Mexican citizens to work in the U.S. temorarilly to keep the economy going strong. -
Ellis Island Closes
Ellis Island closed because it was allowing too many people into the U.S. The immigration levels were at an alltime high, and the governemnt wanted to slow things down. -
The Bracero Program Ends
though the programs were canceled, many migrant workers continued to come to the U.S. without any papers, sstarting an era of undocumented migration. -
Frist Detailed National Count of Unauthroized Immigrant Population
(exact date not specified) 3.4 million people here illegally, the first official record. -
California's Proposition 187 is Approved by Voters (later rejected by the US District Court)
the proposition would have denied health care, education, and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. -
"Minuteman Project" Begins
recruits civilians to patrol the US-Mexican Border -
Secure Fence Act authorizses fencing aling the US-Mexican border
contruction of about 700 miles of a double-layered fence is allowed on the sounthern border. It also directs the secretary of homelan security to take action to stop any illegal entry of undocumnted immagrants. -
Arizona's SB1070 goes into effect
This law was extremely controversial because it gave the authorities the right to investigate the status of someone's residency based on "reasonable suspicion". After this passed in Arizona, five more like this passed in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah. This began the issue of Racial Profiling. -
US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona law penalizing businesses that hire undocumented immigrants
This law allows Arizona to suspend or revoke the licenses of buisnessed if they chose to employ illegal immigrants. -
President Obama signs Deferred Action for Childhoos Arrivals (DACA)
This act allows some undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States if they came here when they were children. This benefitted more than 800,000 people. -
President Obama Announced executive action of prevent deportations of millions of illegal immigrants
This saved around 4.7 million people from getting deported. These people were those who had children in the United States, and allowed to remain here temporarily. Those people could legally apply for jobs and join American socierty but could not vote and did not qualify for the presidents healthcare law. It applied to those who have been here at least five years.
