Immigration

  • 1790 Naturalization Act

    -Become a citezen if you are a free white male and considered a
    ¨good person¨ and lived in the U.S. for 2 years
  • 1864 Immigration Act

    -added position, comissioner of Immagration
    -Report to Secretary of State
    -Labor contracts for immagrants
    -Immagrants exempt from military service
  • 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act

    An act to provide certain children refugees entering preferitial treatment
  • 2006 Secure Fence Act

    -Bush's effort to refom immagration,
    -Homeland Security gains control over U.S-Mexican border
    -Construction of physical barriers begins
    -Fence reinforcement