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US immigration
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Naturalization Act of 1790
In order to become a US citizen the immigrant had to have lived in the US for two years. -
Page Act of 1875
The first act restricting immigration. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigrantion, a ban that extended for 10 years -
Immigrantion Act of 1882
Imposed a 50 cent head tax to funs immigration officials -
Act of 1891
established a Commissioner of immigrantion in the Treasury Department. This act, in amendment to other various acts, allows immigrants/ aliens to come into the U.S. under contact or agreement to preform labor. -
Geary Act of 1892
extended and stregthened the Chinese Exclusion Act -
Anarchist Exclusion of 1903
added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitues. Bars anarchist and other political extremists. -
naturaliziation act of 1906
combined naturaliziation and immigrantion into a Bureua of Immigrantion and Naturalization, required knowlegde of English a requirement for naturaliziation, ans setup standard proceducers, forms and fees. -
Immigration Act of 1907
restricted immigrant for certain classes of disabled and diseased people. excludes ‘imbeciles’, ‘feeble-minded’, people afflicted with a physical or mental disability, with TB, children not accompanied by a parent, individuals who have committed ‘crimes of moral turpitude’ -
Gentleman’s Agreement
informal agreement between the U.S. and Japan stating that no one from Japan can emigrate to the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1917
barred immigration from nations in the Asia-Pacific triangle -
Quota Law
imposed numerical limits on immigration, capping immigration to 350,000/year, and to 3% of the number of people from countries already living in the U.S. in 1910, favoring immigrants from northwestern Europe, except for immigration from western hemisphere (Canada, Latin America, Caribbean). -
1924
Created the U.S. Border Patrol -
National Origins Act
reduced the overall cap to 165,000/year, and the country cap to 2% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1890. -
National origins quota system
went into effect creating a consular control system, required a visa from an American consular office in the home country, and non-immigrant / temporary visitors. But immigrants from western hemisphere nations were exempt as well as wives and unmarried minor children of male U.S. citizens -
Alien Registrtion Act
during WWII required registration and fingerprinting of all foreigners over the age of 14, and made membership in proscribed political organizations grounds for exclusion and deportation. -
Bracero Program
begins large-scale importation of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico bringing a total of 5 million Mexican field workers into the U.S. -
Relocation of persons of Japanese ancestry
relocation/concentration camps until the end of WWII. -
Internal Security Act
makes past or present membership in the Community party or any other totalitarian political party grounds for inadmissibility and deportation -
Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarren-Walter Act)
created one comprehensive statue from the previous immigration related laws, eliminating race as a basis of exclusion, but retained the racist national-origins quota system. For countries outside the western hemisphere the annual quota was set at 1/6th of one percent of the number of persons of that ancestry living in the U.S. as of 1920 (mainly benefiting the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany), and a quota for skilled worke -
‘Operation Wetback’
implemented to deport Mexicans, including some legal and U.S. citizens of Mexican descent -
Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act
created to resettle Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. Includes Laotian refugees in 1976. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant. -
Immigration Act of 1990
increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent. Family reunification was retained as the main immigration criterion, with significant increases in employment-related immigration. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRaIRA)
made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief. -
Transportation and Security Act
required airport screeners to be U.S. citizens, and the screening process to be taken over by the federal government. -
REAL ID Act 2005
created more restrictions on political asylum, severely curtailed habeas corpus relief for immigrants, increased immigration enforcement mechanisms, altered judicial review, and imposed federal restrictions on the issuance of state driver's licenses to immigrants and others. -
Secure Fence Act
2006: Secure Fence Act called for the building of an additional 850 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
