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In order to become aa naturalized citezen, this law required an immigrant to live in the U.S for at least two years
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Increased the period of required residence from two to five years
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Increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years.
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created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent."
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the first act restricting immigration
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imposed a 50 cent head tax to fund immigration officials
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allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years
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Established a Commissioner of Immigration in the Treasury Department. Any person who could become a public charge on society was also not allowed to enter, certain classes of individuals were unfit to become American citizens. Those classes included idiots, insane persons
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extended and strengthened the Chinese Exclusion Act(An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States) for an additional 10 years, and required persons of Chinese descent to acquire and carry identification papers.
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Congress empowered the Bureau of Immigration to exclude people involved in prostitution and to deport prostitutes as well as procurers of prostitutes, they were immigrants too. They added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitutes.
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standardized naturalization procedures, made some knowledge of English a requirement for citizenship, and established the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
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restricted immigrant for certain classes of disabled and diseased people.
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restricted immigration from Asia by creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone" and introduced a reading test for all immigrants over fourteen years of age, with certain exceptions for children, wives, and elderly family members.
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expanding on the provisions of the Anarchist Exclusion Act
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restricted annual immigration from a given country to 3% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910
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(also known as the Johnson Act) aimed at freezing the current ethnic distribution in response to rising immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia. Introduced nationality quotas.
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pertains chiefly to "Nationality at Birth," Nationality through Naturalization," and "Loss of Nationality". This act are to revise the existing nationality laws of the U.S. into a more complete nationality code.
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repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act and permitted Chinese nationals already in the country to become naturalized citizens.
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(McCarran-Walter Act) somewhat liberalized immigration from Asia but increased the power of the government to deport illegal immigrants suspected of Communist sympathies.
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(or Hart-Cellar Act) discontinued quotas based on national origin, while preference was given to those who have U.S. relatives. For the first time Mexican immigration was restricted.
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made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief.
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gave Cuban nationals who enter, or were already present in the United States, legal status.
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granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
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ncreased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent. Family reunification was retained as the main immigration criterion, with significant increases in employment-related immigration.
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Labor Union Supports Amnesty for Immigrants in the United States Illegally
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to Expand Military Support along the Borders
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Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act Updates Immigration Databases and Travel Document Requirements.
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Minuteman Project Begins Recruiting Civilians to Patrol the US Mexico Border.
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Act Expands Laws for Asylum and Deportation of Foreigners for Terrorist Activity
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Secure Fence Act Authorizes Fencing along the US-Mexican Border.
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US Department of Homeland Security Estimates 11.8 Million Unauthorized Immigrants in US with 59% from Mexico.
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US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Businesses That Hire Undocumented Immigrants
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Arrivals to Allow Some Undocumented Immigrants Who Came to the United States as Children to Stay in the Country.
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Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act Adds Immigrants to Protected Classes.
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Judge Blocks Key Parts of Arizona's Anti-Illegal Immigration Law.
