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First significant federal legislation on immigration
reporting of immigration and rules for passengers from US ports bound for Europe -
Dred Scott
Declared free Africans, non citizens -
Citizenship
Africans gained citizenship, 14th ammendment -
Contract label law
allowed recruiting of foreign labor. -
Henderson v. Mayor of New York
declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional -
Chinese exclusion Act
First federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred Chinese in U.S. from citizenship. -
Head tax is raised
People with physical or mental defects unaccompanied by a parent are added to the exclusion list. -
Japanese
Made it ineligable for citezenship. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
eliinated race as a bar to immigration or citizenship -
Hart-Celler Act
Abolished National orgins quotas establishing seperat cielings for the eastern (170,000) and western (120,000) hemispheres (combined in 1978). Categories of preference -
The Refugee Act
Removes refugees as a preferance catagory -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
limited unskilled workers to 10,000/year; skilled labor requirements and immediate family reunification major goals. -
U.S Patriot Act
he Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities