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Four laws that limited rights of immigrants
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A law was passed because of complaints from West Coast workers that Chinese immigrants were threatening their white purity and driving down their wages so they were banned from being citizens of America until 1943.
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The japanese agreed to the US's conditions that they could only give passports to Japanese people who needed to go to America for business and professional men. In turn Pres. Roosevelt agreed to stop the segregation between the white and Japanes people in San Francisco.
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Among the immigrants who were banned, the Immigration Law also banned homosexual immigrants, idiots, feeble-minded persons (immigrants), criminals and eplieptic immigrants, insane immigrants, alcoholic immigrants, professional begging immigrants, mentally or physically defective immigrants, polygamist and anarcist immigrants, and illiterate immigrants who were over the age of sixteen.
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This allowed spouses and adopted children of US military personnel to enter the US after WWII, which temporarily lifted the ban of Asian immigration.
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This act abolished all people from all nations the opportunity to enter the United States.
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This act set strict quotas on the amount of immigrants from Latin-American nations could come to America for short and long term reasons.
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The abolishment of nation-origin quotas
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Reduces the quota of refugees to 270,000 per year.
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Granted Amnesty to illegal aliens who had resided in the US before 1982 while penalizing employers who hired illegal immigrants.
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Allowed immigrants to apply for legal status.
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Sets an annual ceiling of 700,000 immigrants per year.
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Made it very easy to deport illegal aliens (immigrants)
