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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
which stopped entry of chinese immigrants into the United States for then years. The act was first to establish the federal government's right to restrict immigration basedon nationalities. -
1888 & 1891
They allowed the national government not only to exclude certain individuals--convicts, prostiutes and insane person, for example--but also to deport alians who enter the country in violation of these immigration laws. -
Quota Act of 1921
This act limited the annual number if immigrant from each nationality to 3 percent of the number of foreign-born personsof the natioanlity who were living in the United statesin the 1910. -
Immigration Act of 1924 and National Origins Act of 1929
new quota system for each nationality and set a limit on the total number of immigrants to be allowed entryat all.these resulted these acts served as the basicfor US immigration policy for more than 35 years. -
1965
had eliminated quotas based on national origins. As many as 270,000 immigrants could be abmitted each year without regard to nationality country of origin, or race. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
imposed severe penalties on employers who willfully hired illegal aliens. also inclued an amnesty program. -
Period: to
1987-88 - Amnesty Program
illegal alliens who could prove that they had been in this country continuously for at least 5 years could apply to abtain temporary legal residency status.18 months later they could apply for permanent residncey. -
Immigration Act of 1990
this act raised legal immigraition levels by about 40% , to 700,000 per year. -
Proposition 187
denied public social services, publicly funded health care, and public education to people who were suspected of being illegal alians be interviewed, questioned and forced to producelegal residency documents. -
Immigration Reform Act of 1996
put into effect a number of provisions to stem illegal immigration. -
Welfare Reform Act of 1996
prohibited immigrants, including legal immigrants who are not yet citizens, from receiving most forms of public assitance, uncluding welfare benifits -
1997
many refugees automaticallu became eligble for permanent legal residence. other illegal immigrants were allowed to remain in the unted states while the government processed their applications for permanent legal residence
