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Page Act of 1875
imagration act of 1875The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 1873-March 1875) was the first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."[1] The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a forced laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country. -
chinese exclusion act
chinese exclusion act of 1882The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943. -
Immagration act of 1882
act of 1882On 3 August, 1882, the US Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated that a $0.50 tax would be levied on all immigrants landing at United States ports. The money collected was to be used to defray the expenses of regulating immigration and for the care of immigrants after landing. The legislation also gave powers to the authorities to deny entry to "convicts (except those convicted of political offenses), lunatics, idiots and persons likely to become public charges." The head tax money wa -
Immagration act of 1924
immagration act of 1924The Immagration act of 1924 was a act passed saying that there could only be 2% of immagrents allowed in the United States from one country. -
immagration act of 1990
act of 1990The Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub.L. 101-649, 104 Stat. 4978, enacted November 29, 1990) increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements.[1]
