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Passed a law defining who could become a citizen if a person was born here: Citizenship was possible only for someone who was "a free white person."
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25 million immigrants arrived. Most came from the countries Southern and Eastern Europe. These parts of the world that were unfamiliar to many Americans. This was on the heaviest periods of immagration in American history.
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This said no Chinese laborer could enter the U.s. for 10 years. The Chinese were still allowed to immigrate.
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Congress set up a quota favoring immigrants from Europe. It expands the quota system immigration from any country is limited to 2 percent of its total numbers in the 1890 census
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Each country immigrants were limited to 2 percent of foreign born residents from that country listed in teh U.S. Census of 1890
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This abolished the quota system based on national origin When he signed the reform bill President Johnson referred to the old system as un-American
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This abolished the quota system based on national origin. When he signed the reform bill, President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to the old system as "un-American."
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This said that no country could account for more than 7% of total immigrants The law als considered a person's education and skills.
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This increased the patrol staff and stiffened penalties for creating false citizenship papers or smuggling undocumented workers.
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President George W. Bush committed himself to backing a bill to address all immigration issues. This bill proposed to fill short-term labor needs through a guest worker program and strenghtened border control. It didn't propose to track down and deport millions of undocumented workers who were already here.
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bushs bill proposed to fill short term labor need through a guest worker program and strangthened border control and could apply for citizenshio what the administration called the path to citizenship
