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US IMMIGRATION
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NATURALIZATION ACT OF 1790
IT REQUIRED FOR IMMIGRANTS TO HAVE LIVED IN THE UNITED STATES FOR TWO YEARS IN ORDER TO BECOME US CITIZENS. -
NATURALIZATION LAW OF 1802
that directed the clerk of the court to record the entry of all aliens into the United States. -
NATURALIZATION ACT OF 1870
CREATED A SET OF RULES FOR THE PROCESS OF NATURALIZING A PERSON FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY. ALSO INCLUDES PENALTIES AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES -
PAGE ACT
the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."[1] The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a forced laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country. -
THE GEARY ACT
THE GEARY ACT BASICALLY ADDED STRENGTH TO THE CHINESSE EXCLUSION ACT. -
NATURALIZATON ACT OF 1906
REVISED THE LAW FROM 1870 AND REQUIRED IMMIGRANTS TO LEARN ENGLISH IN ORDER TO BECOME NATURALIZED CITIZENS. -
EXPATRIATION ACT
Expatriation Act declares that an American woman who marries a foreign national loses her citizenship -
ASIANTIC BARRED ZONE ACT
Ddded to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective” -
THE EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT
restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy -
IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924
Targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than ethnicity or religion. -
THE JOHNSON-REED ACT
The Johnson-Reed Act limits annual European immigration to 2 percent of the number of nationality group in the United States in 1890. -
NATIONALITY ACT OF 1940
Required nationality at Birth. -
REPEAL OF CHINESSE EXCLUSION ACT
The Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed. By the end of the 1940s, all restrictions on Asians acquiring U.S. citizenship are abolished -
DISPLACED PERSONS ACT
The Displaced Persons Act allowed Europeans displaced by the war to enter the United States outside of immigration quotas -
REFUGEE RELIEF ACT
Refugee Relief Act extends refugee status to non-Europeans. -
OPERATION WETBACK
implemented in May of 1954 by the U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, and utilized special tactics to combat the problem of illegal border crossing and residence in the United States by Mexican nationals, had to send most immigrants back to their homes. -
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT
also known as the Hart–Celler Act,[1] abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act -
IMMIGRATION REFORM ACT
Granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982. -
IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT
required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status,
made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants;
legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982 -
IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1990
Increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent.
