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Chinese immigration is restricted so that only Europeans and Africans could come to the United States.
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Ellis Island in New York harbor opens, serving all immigrants to come across the Atlantic.
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After the assassination of President William McKinley by a Polish anarchist, the Anarchist Exclusion Act was passed that allowed free immigration to be excluded to some based upon their political views.
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By Woodrow Wilson's veto, a literacy requirement of 40 words is enacted on any potential immigrant. The law also specifies that immigration is prohibited from Asia except for Japan and The Phillipines.
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112,000 Japanese citizens, as a result of WWII, are sent into ten internment camps. Their immigration was at this time limited as well.
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The verdict says that internment camps are unconstitutional; therefore, the Japanese are released.
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Despite Truman's veto, the Internal Security Act is passed, making it impossible for people of communist political affiliation to gain citizenship.
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The Refugee Relief Act was extended to non-Europeans.
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The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the number of total immigrants allowed to 700,000.
