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Congress established the first federal administrative agency for the regulation of immigration in the Treasury Department. Congress later refined and strengthened the control of immigration. The Supreme Court gave the constitutional power to regulate immigration to Congress.
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States"-14th Amendment
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Any American woman who married a foreigner was forced to take the nationality of her husband and would no longer be a US citizen but could resume her citizenship if the marriage was terminated.
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The US border patrol was officially established to secure the borders between inspection stations.
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Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the US because although some became citizens through marriage, a lot were still not citizens and were barred from the ordinary process of naturalization open to foreigners.
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This gave the US military the power to ban any citizen from a fifty to sixty mile wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona.
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After China became an ally during WWII the exclusion laws were repealed and allowed the Chinese to become naturalized citizens, but it gave them an annual quota of only 105 immigrants.
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In November of 1954 the last detainee, a Norwegian merchant Arne Peterssen was released and Ellis Island officially closed. It was later declared a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
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The Armed Forces Naturalization Act gave US military veterans who served in active duty capacity in Vietnam or other "military hostiles" the ability to become naturalized citizens.
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34 years after the Japanese Americans were denied their constitutional rights Gerald Ford repealed the executive order.
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Congress rewrote provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act that pertain to the circumstances under which certain aliens subject to expulsion from the US may become legal residents.
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Military support was expanded to include counterterrorism activities.
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The act authorizes the construction of hundreds of miles of double layer fencing along the nations southern border. It also directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take action to stop the unlawful entry of undocumented immigrants, terrorists, and contraband into the US using both personnel and surveillance technology.
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It is a crime to come into the country illegally, and illegal immigrants will be required to carry paperwork proving their status. AZ police will generally be required to question anyone they reasonably suspect of being undocumented
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The US supreme Court upheld an Arizona law that imposes sanctions against businesses that hire illegal immigrants
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The Violence Against Women Act provides a temporary visa and creates a pathway to legalization for undocumented immigrants who are the victims of domestic abuse.
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With 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, Obamas plan would let about 4.4 million who are parents of US citizens and legal permanent residents remain in the country temporarily, without the threat of deportation.
