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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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required 14 years of residency before citizenship and provided for the deportation of "dangerous" aliens. Changed to five-year residency in 1800.
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The first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants
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Imposed a 50 cent head tax to fund immigration officials
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The mass deportation of Chinese immigrants in the United States
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It strengthen the Chinese exclusion act
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It required nationality at birth
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It was a treaty between the United States and Japan represented an effort by President Theodore Roosevelt to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers.
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It was the first significant piece of legislation that restricted immigration in general ways.
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This limited the number of immigrants from any country of 3% of those already in the U.S.
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It targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than ethnicity or religion.
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It granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
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This increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent
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Any immigrant in the state of Arizona has to be registered in the government
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It is regarded as the nations’ strictest anti-illegal immigration law.
