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Congress legalizes the importation of contract laborers.
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suspended immigration of Chinese laborers under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
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The United States and Japan form a “Gentleman’s Agreement” in which Japan ends issuance of passports to laborers and the U.S. agrees not to prohibit Japanese immigration.
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The U.S. enters World War I and anti-German sentiment swells at home. The names of schools, foods, streets, towns, and even some families, are changed to sound less Germanic.
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The Supreme Court rules that first-generation Japanese are ineligible for citizenship and cannot apply for naturalization.
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It's a federal law that restricted immigrants from migrating to the United States through quotas. This decreased the amount of immigrants coming into the United States by a large amount. Immigration visas were given to only 2 percent of the immigrants.
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The Bracero Act grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, 4.6 million contracts were signed, with many individuals returning several times on different contracts, making it the largest U.S. contract labor program.
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President Roosevelt signs order authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” These area's would later be call the Japanese Interment Camps.
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Federal legislation that lifted a government ban on Chinese immigration
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the act allowed individuals of all races to be eligible for naturalization.
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It abolishes the earlier quota structure based on national origin and creates in its place a new immigration policy that reunites families and attracts new skilled workers.
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the act helped legalize illegal aliens residing in the U.S. unlawfully since 1982, also providing legal guidelines on hiring undocumented citizens
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the presidential move will again separate parents from their kid who crosses the U.S/Mexico border. This act caused a national public outcry with public protest and new reels.
