United States Immigration Policies.

By Lucia2013

  • 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