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Chinese Exclusion Act
The United States of America suspended the Chinese Immigation. It was suppose to last up to ten years. -
Federal Office of Immigration Created
Required use of IDs meeting certain security standards to enter gov't buildings, board planes, open bank accounts.
Established national standards for state driver licenses.
Cleared the way for the building of border barriers -
Emergency Quota Act
An act that restricted immigrants into the United States. Also, restricted number of immigrants from any country. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The U.S federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who can be admitted from one country to the number of immigrants living in the United States. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Act that was able to restrict immigration into the United States -
Plyler Vs. Doe
struck down a state statute denying funding for education to children who were illegal immigrants -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status. Made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit unauthorized immigrants -
Immigration Act of 1990
increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, -
Illegal immigration Act
Phone verification for worker authentication by employers.Access to welfare benefits more difficult for legal aliens.Increased border enforcement -
Rodriguez Vs. United States
Held that statutes which discriminate within the class of aliens comport with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment , so long as they satisfy rational basis scrutiny -
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Form Act
Provided for more Border Patrol agents.Requires that school report foreign students attending classes -
Real ID Act
Required use of IDs meeting certain security standards to enter gov't buildings, board planes, open bank accounts.
Established national standards for state driver licenses.
Cleared the way for the building of border barriers -
Arizona Immigration Law
U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days[5] to register with the U.S. government,[6] and to have registration documents in their possession at all times -
Alabama Immigration Law
Requiring schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. -
Criminal Alien Program (CAP)
Expensive immigration-enforcment program that is responsible for initiation of a large lproportion of removal proceedings. -
Dream Act
Act that allows a path for illegal immigratns to obtain legal residency and US. citizenship if they enlist in military or go to college.
