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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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increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years.
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The first act restricting immigration
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The first act restricting federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered “undesirable”
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The law was to tax fifty cents to each immigrant and also blocked lunatics, convicts, and persons likely to become a political change
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These Laws prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States
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It established a Commissioner of Immigration in the Treasury Department
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It extended and strengthened the Chinese Act,
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It added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitutes
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Made some knowledge of English a requirement for citizenship and established the Bureau of immigration and Naturalization
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It restricted immigrants for certain classes of disabled and diseased people
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(Barred Zone Act) restricted immigration Asia by creating an “Asiatic Barred Zone” and introduced a reading test for all immigrants over fourteen years of age
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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 US in 1910
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It aimed at freezing the current ethic distribution in response to rising immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia.
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It has to do with “Nationality at Birth” and “Nationality through Naturalization
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It liberalized immigration from Asia but increased the power of the government to deport illegal immigrants suspected of Communist sympathies
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It discontinued qoutas based on national origin while preference was given to those who have U.S. relatives. For the first time Mexican immigration was restricted.
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It gave Cuban nationals who enter or were already present in the United States legal states
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It granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who have been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant
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It increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent. Family reunification was retained as the main immigration criterion who significant increase in employment related immigration
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It made drastic changes to asylum law immigration detention , criminal based immigration and many immigration relief
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It created more restrictions on political asylum severely curtailed habeas corpus relief for immigrants increased immigration enforcement mechanisms altered judicial review and imposed federal restrictions on the insurance of state drivers licenses to immigrants and others.
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U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days to register with the U.S. government and to have registration documents in their possession at all times
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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.
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Certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several key guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and would then be eligible for work authorization.
