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1795 Naturalization Act
Any free white person could recieve citizenship providing they had renounced their allegiance to their previous state/sovereignty by name, lived in the United States for five years at least, behave as a man of good moral character. You just needed to -
Chinese Exclusion act
exclude Chinese from migrating to the United States. The government felt that Chinese laborers were a threat to order in certain localities. The law stated that for the next ten years the Chinese laborers were suspended from coming into the United States -
1917 Immigration Act,
restricted the immigration of 'undesirables' from other countries, including "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity, those with tuberculosis, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease. wouldntt let harmful peoplecome over to the united states -
2006 Secure fence act
President George W. Bush’s effort on immigration reform which was intended to allow the Department of Security to gain control over the entire United States-Mexico border and maritime border