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immigration policies from the 1800's to today

  • First significant federal legislation on immigration

    Reporting of immigration and rules for passengers from US ports bound for Europe
  • Contract label law

    allowed recruiting of foreign labor.
  • Henderson v. Mayor of New Yorkt

    declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclustion Act was and act that was meant to kick out all of the chinese for mining all of the Americans gold.
  • Japanese

    It made it impossible to have japanese to be a citizen.
  • The Refugee Act

    was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S
  • California Pro 187 Act

    The law restricted illegal immigrants from using public education, using health care and other social services.
  • U.S Patriot Ac

    he Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities.
  • Arizona SB 1070

    This act has been known as the strictest immigration law known in history. The law required all illegal aliens over the age of 14 who had been in the United states for more that 30 days, must register with the government and have to register documents in their possessions at all time