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Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien act allows the president to force immigrants of America, if he thought they were dangerous or suspicipous. It also allows the arrest of immigrants during war time.
The sedition act is a crime that forbids false, scandolous, and malicious writing and articles. They has resulted arresting 25 newspaper editors. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Competition from Chinese Immigrants were driving down wages and job payments, and threatening white "racial purity," in results of forbidding chinese residents to come to the US for ten years, plus another ten. -
Alien Contract Labor Laws
The alien contract labor act was created by congress to forbid corporations or individuals from paying for the transportation of foreign laborers in the US. -
Immigration and Naturalization Service Created:
Now referred to as Legacy INS. INS was established on June 10, 1933 by their merger to administrator matters related to established immigrant and naturlization policy. After 1890, the federal governmenty, rather than the individual states, regulated immigration to the US. -
INS opens up Ellis Island as a screnning station for immigrants
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Immigration Act of 1917
This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not milmted to homosexuals, idiots, feeble-minded persons, criminals, epileptics, insane persons, alcoholics, proffesional beggars, mentally or physcially defective, polygamists, and anarchists. It barred immigrants over sixteen of who were illiterate. -
Anarchist act passed and excludes subversive aliens
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A Quota System is first introduced
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The Chinese Exclusion Repeal act of 1943
Was immigration legislation proposed by US representative (Later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and signed into law on December 17, 1943 in the US. It allowed chinese immigration for the first time since the chinese exclusion act of 1882, and permitted chinese nationals already residing in the country to become citizens. This marked the first time since the naturalization act of 1790 that any asians were permitted to be naturalized. -
War Brides Act
The war brides act (Public law 271) was enacted in 1945 to allow spouses and adpted childrenb of US millitary personnel to enter the US after world war II. The law temporarily lifted the ban on Asian Immigration. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
Asiatic barred zone abolished and people from all nations given opportunity to enter the US. -
The refugee act
Makes an additiona; allowance for victims of war and diaster -
Abolishment of nation origin quotes
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Immigration and Nationality act
Set strict quotas on the number of persons who could legally enter the US, from latin American nations, and most new Mexican migration to the US in the 1960s and 1970s was temporay and short term. Since the 1980s, Mexican migration has inceased dramatically . -
Amendments
An amendment limits eastern and western hemisphere immigrants to 290,000 per year with no more than 20,000 from any one place. -
The Refugees act of 1980
Reduces quota to 270,000 per year. -
The immigration reform and control
granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had resided the US before 1982 while imposing penalties on employers who hired illegal immigrats. -
The immigration reform and control
Allows most illegal immigrants to apply for legal status. -
Immigration act of 1990
Sets an annual celing of 700,000 immigrants per year -
illegal immigration reform
makes it easy to deport illegal aliens, or immigrants
