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Naturalization Act of 1870
Federal law that created a system of controls for the naturalozation process & it made penalties for bad practices. -
Page Act of 1875
It is the first federal immigration law & it prohibited the entry of immigrants that were considered "undesirable." These "undesirables" were from Asia, any Asian women involved in prostitution or all people that were convicts in their own country. -
Chinese Exclustion Act of 1882
Alllowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration -
Geary Act of 1882
This act extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882Immigration Act of 1803 by adding new requirements. The law required Chinese residents of the United States to carry a resident permit. If not followed it was punishable by deportation or a year of hard labor. Plus, Chinese were not allowed to bear witness in court and could not receive bail in habeas corpus. -
Immigration Act/Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903
It added four classes that were not allowed: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. -
Naturalization Act of 1906
It required immigrants to learn English to become naturalized citizens. -
Immigration Act/ of 1917/Asiatic Barred Zone
Added more to the number of undesirables which were: homosexual, idiots, feeble-minded persons, criminals, epileptics, insane persons, alcoholics, professional beggars, all persons mentally or physically defective, polygamists, and anarchists. -
Immigration Act of 1918
Defines who is an anarchists. -
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Added numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of quota system for establishing those limits. -
National Origins Formula
Was an American system of immigration quotas between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population in the country. The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1924/zJohnson Act of 1924
Limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2%. The law was aimed to further restrict the Southern and Eastern Europeans. -
Bracero Program of 1942
A series of laws between the U.S. & Mexico that allowed for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the U.S. -
Chinese Ezclusion Repeal Act of 1943/Magnuson Act
It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. -
Immigration & Nationality Act of 1952/McCarran-Walter Act
It governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States. -
Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965
It abolished the National Origins Formula and replaced it with a preference system that focused on immigrants’ skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. -
Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act of 1966
Applies to any native or citizen Cuba who has been inspected & admitted or paroled into the U.S. after january 1, 1959 & they have been physically present for at least one year. Plus they are admissible to the U.S. as a permanent resident. -
Immigration Reform & Control Act of 1986
It required employers to attest to their employees’ immigration status. It made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants. It legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants & illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. before January 1, 1882 and have resided continuously with the penalty of a fine, back taxes due & admission of guilt. -
Immigration Act of 1990
It increases the limits on legal immigration to the U.S.; revised all grounds for exclusion & deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries. Plus revised & established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised & extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, & revised naturalization & requirements. -
Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
States that immigrants unlawfully present in the US. for 180 days but less than 365 days must remain outside the U.S. for 3 years unless they obtain a pardon. If they were in the U.S. for 365 days or more, they must stay outside the U.S. for 10 years unless they obtain a waiver. If they return to the U.S. without the pardon, they may not apply for a waiver for a period of 10 years. -
Arizona SB 1070
Made it illegeal for aliens to reside in Arizona without proper papers and it allowed for officers to legeally stop people to check if they are residents. -
Alabama HB 56/Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act
Law prevent illegal people from receiving free education at either state or local area. Landlords can not rent to illegal people either, people can not hire illegal people.
