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Massachusetts sets a precedent for immigration laws by ordering that townspeople cannot host aliens without permission from authorities.
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Restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person" who had been in the U.S. for two years. In effect, it left out indentured servants, slaves, and most women.
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Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
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Outlawed shipment of Chinese subjects, known as "Coolies" to be held to service of labor.
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Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and had to reside on the property for five years before owning it.
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It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station.
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The 14th Amendment gives citizenship to all persons born within the United States.
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Was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers
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Abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
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The purpose of this legislation was to amend, revise, and reform/re-assess the status of unauthorized immigrants set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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Amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities.
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Purpose of bill was to make the U.S.'s borders more secure.
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Requires police to determine the immigration status of someone arrested or detained when there is “reasonable suspicion” they are not in the U.S. legally.