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Naturalization Act of 1870
THe naturalization Act was put in place to bring order to two problems. The first problem was illegal immigrants being able to come to the United States and not going through the correct process. The government solved this issue by putting in charges for fradulant activity. The second part of this law says their is naturalization laws for aliens and people of African decent.
Source: http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/contested-zone/37058-1870-naturalization-act.html -
Page Act of 1875
For this act, there are five parts that were decided on. This act had to do with free and voluntary will to immigrate to the United States, from people of Asian decent.
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Act of 1891
This act was a revised act of the 1882 Immigaration Act. The act was put in place to repeal anyone who was dependent on someone else.
Source:http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1891_immigration_act.html -
Immigation Act of 1903
This act revised the original act. The government also put into act two new inadmissible classes which are, the first law covered immigrants involved in prostitution and the second one dealt with anarchists.
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Naturalization Act of 1906
This act was making the process of becoming a naturalized citizen under the Bureau of Immigration and Nautralization who would sort through these applications.
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
This act reduced the number of immigrats who were allowed to enter the United States based off of how many people from their country were already in the United States.
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Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)
This act like the last one limited the number of immigrats able to enter the United States. Unlike the Emergency Quota Act this one let wives and children into the United States as "non-quota" immigrants.
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Nationality Act of 1940
This act is a revised act of the original. During this act the governemnt clairfied the status of those who were living in any of the continental U.S. at the time.
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)
This act was a way to deny immigrants to the United States based on how unpolitical, diseased and other unamerican ways. This law let people be let in based on how willing they were to assimilate to the american way.
Source: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1952_immigration_and_nationality_act.html -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar)
This act abolished the immigration quota and put in place a new way of emitting citizens.
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Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
This bill was enacted to revise/re-asses the Immigration and Nationality Act. This bill was a way for illiegal immigrants to gain legal status if they met the requirements.
Source:http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1986_immigration_reform_and_control_act.html -
Immigration Act of 1990
This law enacted the Diversity Visa Lottery Program.
Source: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1990_immigration_and_nationality_act.html -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsiblity Act of 1996
This law has many parts to it, for the basic understanding of this law it is the rules that are put forth for illegal immigrants and the people enforcing the law.
Source: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1996_illegal_immigration_reform_and_immigrant_responsibility_act.html -
Real ID Act of 2005
This act has several parts to it, the overall summary of this act is to have a tighter security after 9/11.
Source: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/2005_real_id_act.html -
Arizona SB 1070
This is an act to try and have enforment for illegal immigration through Arizona. This law is a very controversial topic because of the consitiutional rights.
Source: http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/immig/analysis-of-arizonas-immigration-law.aspx -
Immigration Innovation Bill (I-Squared Bill) of 2013
This bill still has not been signed into effect. This bill is to take a closer look at visa's for illegal immigrants in employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa's, student visa's, and STEM.
Source:http://www.lawlogix.com/case-management-guru/announcements/i-squared-visa-bill-proposes-swift-changes-skilled-worker-visas/
