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This act allowed for immigrants to become naturalized citizens after two years of living in the United States.
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lengthened required residency to become citizen.
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further lengthened required residency to become citizen, registers white immigrants to establish date of initial residency.
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Created system of controls for the naturilization process and penalties for fraudulent practices
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It was the first act that restricted immigration.
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The mass deportation of Chinese immigrants in the U.S.
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It imposed a 50 cent head tax to fund immigration officials.
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This act strengthened the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Requires immigrants to learn English before they can become citizens
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Restricted immigration from Asia by creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone" and introduced a reading test for all immigrants over fourteen years of age, with certain exceptions for children, wives, and elderly family members.
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It expanded on the provisions of the Anarchist Exclusion Act
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It restricted annual immigration from a given country to 3% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910
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Targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than religion or ethnicity
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Liberalized immigration from Asia, but it increased the power of the government to deport illegal immigrants suspected of Communist sympathies.
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Gave Cuban nationals who enter, or were already present in the United States, legal status.
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Granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
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increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 & increased visas by 40%
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Made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief.
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requires police to determine the immigration status of someone arrested or detained when there is “reasonable suspicion” they are not in the U.S. legally
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The Alabama law requires that if police have "reasonable suspicion" that a person is an immigrant unlawfully present in the United States, in the midst of any legal stop, detention or arrest, to make a similarly reasonable attempt to determine that person's legal status
