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Colonial immigration laws were in place. Lame, impotent and infirm people were not allowed to enter without security that the town would not have to support them. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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This allowed those who lived in the country for 2 years to apply for citizenship, but was restricted to "white people". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States
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50,000 slaves were smuggled into the US even though foreign slave trade was made illegal. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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This stated that children who were born in the US were considered citizens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States
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Government sold land to citizens and immigrants to encourage people to settle in the Mid West. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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State Immigration Laws are said to be Unconstitutional.Congress starts to bring immigration "under direct Federal Control for the first time." Immigration was using a lot of resourses and was becoming overwelming so they had to make a change.
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This revoked citizenship of women who married a foreigner, mostly not eligible for citizenship like Chinese and Japanese men. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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The Melting Pot play becomes the biggest hit on broadway. It is about immigration and immigrants coming from other places and being "molded into Americans".
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Thousdands of Mexicans traveled north because of the Mexican Revolution. The US had jobs and agriculture opportunites as well as industry. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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This limmited the amount of immigrants that could enter the US down to 2% of the total number of people from that country that were already living in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
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The US border patrol and Labor Appropriation Act was established. This secured the borders with officers and agents. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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During the Great Depression immigration was shut down by President Roosevelt and it went from 230,000 to 23,000 immigrants entering the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States
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The Bracero program ended and the era of undocumented immigrants began. Migrant workers and laborers continued to come from Mexico to the US. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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An estimated 1-2 million immigrants with undocumented papers are in the US and about half of them were from Mexico. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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Immigration Act of 1990 increased the limits on US legal immigration and revises deportation and exclustion. It also revised the naturalization laws. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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The labor union supports amnesty for the US immigrants illegally. It allowed all working people to have more rights, if they were legal or not. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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Hundreds of miles of fence divide the countries and resrict border crossing. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
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Controversial Arizona Bill was made a law that allowed the state authority to handle illegal immigrants. A crime to be in the state illegally. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
