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Prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers. First major time of creating an exclusion act against another country and going national.
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Prohibited Chinese laborers that had future travel plans could not return back to he Unites States.
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The busiest immigrant inspection station and a gateway for over 12 million immigrants.
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It extended the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Required immigrants to learn English in order to be natural citizens. (The process of a non-citizen gaining citizenship)
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First committee that studied immigration consequences and origins in the United States. It was made up people in the house and the senate.
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Reformed the restriction number of immigrants, specifically before and after WW I. (Notably ones regarding disability and disease)
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Required immigrants to display their ability to read and write. Law also created Asiatic barred zone - stopped immigration from Asia.
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Put restriction of how many immigrants enter the USA.
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Repeals the law that states a US citizen who marries a foreign man would in turn loose her citizenship. (This only applies to woman)
