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Immigration in the USA

By wollner

  • First Wave of Restrictions on Immigration became

    First Wave of Restrictions on Immigration became
    This Statue was the first immigration law, excluding convicts, prostitutes, lunatics from public charges.

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act
    This Act exclused the chineses from public charges

  • Control of Immigration

    In 1891 it was Created the Office of Superintendent of Immigration to analyze the arrive of immigrants in the USA. At that moment, the federal governemnet could admit or deny entry of all immigrants.

  • First Immigration Statute of Limitations

    First Immigration Statute of Limitations
    1. Medical and general inspections by the federal government.
    2. Exclusion based on diseases.
    3. Exclusion based on criminal offenses.
    4. Exclusion based on status of poor or polygamy.
    5. The statute of limitation on a year abroad with illegal entry.

  • Ellis Island Immigration Center opens

    Ellis Island Immigration Center opens
    In January 1892, a Federal Immigration Station on Ellis Island was established near the port of New York, creating the largest and busiest immigration checkpoints in the country. The Ellis Island was a huge project employing a team of 119 officers of the Immigration Service, providing home to a team of immigration as well as representatives of organizations helping immigrants. The facilities owned courtrooms and detention, hospitals, canteens, offices and even management offices of travel ticket

  • The Amendments of 1903

    The Amendments of 1903 arranged the exclusion of epileptics, insane persons and beggars.

  • The 1906 Act

    The Legislative Act of 1906 aproved basic rules for naturalization, like is done today.

  • The Immigration Act of 1917

    The Immigration Act of 1917
    In response to the massive wave of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 which required that immigrants be able to read and write in their native languages.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Emergency Quota Act
    The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants from a given country to 3 percent of the number of people living in the U.S. from that country in 1910. See the restrictions by country: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/outsidelink.html/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:981746

  • The Alien Act of 1940

    The Alien Act of 1940
    The Alien Registration Act of 1940 requires that all immigrants in the United States over 14 years of age be registered and fingerprinted.
  • Period: to

    Between 1945 and 1950, 532,431 immigrants arrived in the United States.

    Between 1945 and 1950, 532,431 immigrants arrived in the United States.

  • Ellis Island Closes

    Ellis Island Closes
    Ellis Island in New York City closed down after 62 years in operation. During this time, 15 million immigrants passed through the island when coming to the United States.
    Today millions of tourists take the ferry to visit the old buldings and museum.

  • Immigration and Naturalization Act4 Oct 1965

    Immigration and Naturalization Act4 Oct 1965
    The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 legally allowed immigration to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson at a ceremony on Libery Island.

  • The Helms Amendment

    The Helms Amendment
    The United States bans travel and immigration by foreign nationals who are infected with AIDS. The Helms Amendment, nJesse Helms, added HIV to the list excluding immigrants from coming to the United States.

  • USA Patriot Act

    USA Patriot Act
    After the September 11, the american government implemented the Patriot Act, a group of measures that gave America more power to fight terrorism, as demanded by President Bush.

  • Patriot Act Section 412

    Patriot Act Section 412
    Refers to the prerogative to stop, so compulsory, people suspected of being terrorists. To put these suspects in custody, the attorney general has the ability to certify / attest that an alien is described in one of the sections mentioned below, or is engaged in any activity that endangers the national security of the United States.

  • Patriot Act Section 213

    Patriot Act Section 213
    Sneak and peek warrants

  • Patriot Act Section 802

    Patriot Act Section 802
    Fight against domestic terrorrism. (...) the term domestic terrorism means activities that (A) configure acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of criminal laws of the United States or any State, (B) that appear to claim (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population, (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or (iii) intended to modify the conduct of a government using of mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping; (...)

  • HIV immigration and travel ban abolished

    HIV immigration and travel ban abolished
    The HIV travel and immigration ban is abolished by the Department of Health and Human Services.
    This act will help to finish with this discrimination.