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2 years required to be considered for citizenship
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Amendment to Act of 1790: 5 years required
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Amendment: 14 years of residency + 5 years notice of intent to apply for citizenship
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Republican party proposes 25 years of residency and requirement of being a white man. Reflective of growing eugenics movement in the US.
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Chinese women barred from entering US
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(prior avg 2.5 per decade - mainly from england, germany, etc) increasingly from eastern and southern europe
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1st act to limit immigration by race. Restricts Chinese immigration.
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Creates a tax on ppl coming in; bans liabilities (like criminals, etc?)
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Passenger manifests required on all ships coming into the US
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Bureau handles deportations; Act also bans more people from entering (including those with diseases)
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Chinese workers required to have resident permit. Laws changed to make it harder to migrate and live here.
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Anarchists exclusion, in addition to beggars, epileptics, etc
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Creates new Bureau of Immigration (overseen by commerce department)
Require applicants to known English in order to achieve citizenship -
Excluding: people with disabilities that make them unable to work, unaccompanied children, people who have committed crimes of moral turpitude
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ends Japanese immigration
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Married women take nationality of husband
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Excludes people from large swaths of Asia and Pacific Islands from immigrating. Bars homos, criminals, etc. Literacy required.
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quota capped at 350,000
also capped by ethnicity at 3% of 1910 census favored northern european immigrants over southern and easter europeans -
repeals 1907 ex patriotism act
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limits cap to 165,000
cap by ethnicity at 2% on 1890 census *does not apply to northern hemisphere -
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cap at 150,000
2% of 1920 census -
14+ y/o must register with govt; ban subversives from entering
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Brings Mexican workers in during farm worker shortage brought on by WWII
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Quota: 105
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(not sure of quotas)
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200,000 refugees may enter
Quotas ? -
Deportation of communist party members who are immigrants
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Updates previous immigration laws
Immigration from Western Hemisphere OK
Quota in place - 1/16 of 1% of #s from 1920 census -
"Cancels nationality quotas" but establishes new quotes
Preference given for families of US citizens -
Residency after 2 years
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end of Vietnam war.
200,000 Viet & Cambodian refugees allowed
extended to Laotians in 1976 -
1965 caps replaced by a cap of 290,000
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defines refugee (?)
Establishes president and congress can set yearly caps
lowers cap to 270,000 -
3 Mil get citizenship!
But end demand implemented. Employers required to check status -- cannot hire undocumented workers
Other Stuff too -
cap 700,000 total for the next 3 years
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Broadens definition of "aggravated felonies" to exclude more people
Effective Retroactively
Increase Border Patrol Agents
Expedite removal process by making deportation w/o a hearing possible -
cuts benefits for documented immigrants
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To get a license/state ID, states must verify you're a citizen
Expend restrictions on refugees seeking aslym
limit habeas corpus rights for immigrants -
People under the age of 31 who immigrated when children can apply for deferrals and work permits
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this is challenged in court and is officially blocked 2016
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Blocked at first, but upheld under executive order (?)
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