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Immigration would then on be controlled by the federal government.
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Immigrants from Europe, Africa and later Asia began to come to America seeking economic opportunity, religious freedom, or later against their will.
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This would deal with the big increase in immigration that began in 1880
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Nearly 24 million immigrants arrived in USA in this time
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Immigration from Europe greatly reduced
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A new immigration policy that would deal with the mass immigration that relapsed after WWI ended.
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Immigration was limited by assigning each nationality a quota based on representation in past US census figures
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(within the Immigration Service)
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Congress re-codified and combined all previous immigration and naturalization into one.
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Designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to US
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This finally created a general policy governing the admissions of refugees.
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Immigration Reform and Control Act: two main parts were amnesty and enforcement.
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"credibility of immigration policy can be measured by a simple yardstick: people who should get it, do get in; people who should not get in are kept out; and people who are judged deportable are required to leave."
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This modified and expanded the 1965 act.
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Pardoned approximately 578,000 ilegal aliens who were each fined $1,000.
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(Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act)
This act added to border controls by mandating the hiring of more agents. -
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(Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act)
This amnesty gave legal status to about 1 million illegal immigrants, most from Central America, who had lived in US since 1995 -
(Haitian Refugee Immigration and Fairness Act)
Haitians thought that NACARA was discriminatory against them, so this act was passed -
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(Legal Immigration Family Equity Act)
This mini-amnesty was for those who were illegal aliens who hoped to become green card holders through marriage, employment or other categories, but were not near approval yet. -
The attack exposed holes in our immigration system that included failures at visa processing, internal enforcement, and information sharing.
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This act was limited to enforcement and focused on both the border and the interior.
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(Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act)
It would have given amnesty to a majority of illegal aliens already in country as well as dramaticaclly increased legal immigration, but no bill ever emerged from it. -
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act)
It would have given amnesty to a large majority of illegal immigrants to the country, increased legal immigration, and increased enforcement, but again it was not passed.
