Immigration issues between the U.S. and Arizona

Naturalization Act of 1798

Jun 18, 1798

This act basically increased the aount of wait time that it took for immigrants to become citizens in the United States.

Fourteenth Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

This Amendment protected any babies that were born in the United States to be concidered citizens.

Chinese Exclusion Act

May 6, 1882

This act allowed the United States to suspend chinese immigration.. that was only supposed to last for 10 years.

Geary Act of 1892

May 5, 1892

This Act extended and strengthened the Chinese Exclusion Act by adding more requirements and restrictions.

Naturalization Act of 1906

Sep 27, 1906

This Act required immigrants to learn English before they became a citizen of the United States.

Emergency Quota Act

May 19, 1921

This act restricted immigration into the United States to 3% from the same country. This meant that only people from Northern Europe who were similiar in culture to Americans were likely to get in.

National Orgins Formula Between Created 1921 and 1965

Sep 1, 1921

This Formula restricted immigration based on exisiting proportions of the population. The plan was to keep the same ethic compostion of the united states.

Immigration act of 1924

May 26, 1924

This law decresed the allowed number of people from each country from 3% to 2%.

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

Jun 27, 1952

This retained the National Orgins Formula. This Act restricted immigration into the United States and elliminated racial restrictions.

Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act

Nov 2, 1966

This Act basically gave any Cuban nationals who enter, or who were already in the United States(After January 1st, 1959) and who had been physically present permanent citizenship.

Immigration Act of 1990

Nov 29, 1990

This act basically raise the ammount of immigrants we allowed into our country, It was raised to 700,000 people, and increased visas by 40%.

California Proposition 187

Nov 8, 1994

This proposition basically said that the reason the economy in California was doing so poorly was because of illegal immigrants. This proposition denied illegal immigrants access to healthcare, education, etc. The propostion was passed, but decleared unconstitutional in 1997.

REAL ID Act

May 11, 2005

This set requirements for State ID's, changed visa limits for temporary workers, funded some reports for border security, updated/increased laws for deporting immigrants, waived laws that interfered with the construction of physical barriers at the borders.

SB 1070 Passed

Apr 30, 2010

It basically allows cops to question immigration status when they pull over someone, or have reasonable suspicion to believe they are an immigrant. Many claimed this bill to be racist.

Georgia HB 87

Jul 1, 2011

In result to Arizonas HB 1070, Georgia decided to try and pass a bill that required government agencies to check the immigration status of aplicants. This bill was passed and was put into effect on July 1st, 2011.