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Early Restrictions - 1790
It passed a law defining who could become a citizen if a person was not born here: Citizenship was only possible only for someone who was a free white person. As that term was understood, this barred any African or Asian Immigrants were still excluded from citizenship. -
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One of the heaviest periods of immigration - 1880 and 1920
One of the heavies periods of immigration in American History came between 1880 and 1920 when some 25 million immigrants arrived. Most come from the countries of the Southern and Eastern Europe parts of the world that were unfamiliar to many Americans. They saw these new unfamiliar to many Americans. They saw these new immigrants as very different from themselves. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It said that no Chinese laborer could enter the United States for 10 years. Chinese professionals were still allowed to immigrate. Renew several times, the act was enforce until World War II. In that conflict, China was in American ally and Congress repealed the law. -
Quota act of 1921
Congress set up quotas favoring immigrants from the northwest Europe; the immigration act of 1924 expands the quota system; immigration from any country is limited to 2 percent of its total numbers in the 1890 census. -
Immigration Act of 1924
It introduced a quota system by country: Each countries immigrants were limited to 2 percent of foreign-born residents from that country listed in the U.S. Census of 1890. This formula drops that had been in the united states for a long time. For example, Great Britain would have a high quota would be low because there were many British-Born residents in the United States in 1980. -
1965 - immigration Reform Act
In 1965 Congress passed the Immigration Reform Act, Abolishing the quota system based on national origin. When he signed the reform bill, President Lyndon B. Johnson refereed to the old system as un-american. -
1986 - Immigration reform and control act
The immigration reform and control act penalize employers for knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants, but it gives amnesty to some undocumented immigrants, allowing them a path to eventually apply for citizenship -
Immigration act of 1990
congress wanted any one country from making up most of the immigrants to the united states.In order to accomplish this, it passed the immigration act of 1990, which said the no one country could account for more than 7 percent of total immigrants. The law also considered a persons education and skills. In addition, the law set up special categories for war refugees or close relatives of American citizens. -
Immigration Reform Act of 1996
A new law expands the U. S. Border Patrol and stiffens penalties for false papers -
June 2007, president George W. Bush
President George W. Bush committed himself to backing a bill to address the immigration rules. Bush's bill proposed to fill short-term labor needs through a guest worker program and strengthened boarder control. Yet Bush argued that his bill was also realistic because it did not propose to track down and deport millions of undocumented workers who were already here.
