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Congress passed a law defining who could become a citizen if a person was not born here: Citizenship was possible only for someone who was "a free white person". This barred any African or Asian immigrants from becoming a citizen.
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During this timespan, 25 million immigrants arrived. Most came from coutries of Southern and Eastern Europe.
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The law stated that no Chinese laborer could enter the United States for 10 years, although Chinese professionals were still allowed to immigrate. Congress repealed this law during WWII.
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Congress set up quotas favoring immigrnats from northwestern Europe.
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Act was passed stating that each countries immigrants were limited to 2 percent of foreign-born residents from theat coutnry listed in the United States Census of 1890.
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Act aboloished that quota system based on national origin. This bill was based off of two priniciples: reeuniting families and giing priority ti certain skills. This act also set limits: 170.000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere.
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This act penalized employrs for knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants, but it gave amnesty to some undocumented immigrants, allowing them a path to enetually apply for citizenship.
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Law that stated that no country could account for more than 7 percent of all immigrants. This law also considered a persons education and skills. It also set up special catagories for war refugees and close reletived of American Citizens.
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Congress passed a law that increased border patrol staff and stiffened penalties for creating false citizenship papers or smuggling undocumented workers.
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A bill was proped by President Bush to address all immigration issues, but the bill was killed and the immigration issues were never faced.
