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This gives the right to anyone who immigrated to the U.S. that their children who were born in America were automatically givent citizenship.
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The revolution drove thousands of people from Mexico north, to America where they were offered jobs and protection.
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Congress ordered mounted guards to patrol the bored in order to prevent illegal immagrants from 1915-1916
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Congress passed the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924, officially creating the U.S. Border Patrol for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations.
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This made it illegal for anyone to talk about overhrowing the government. It also recuired all of the alien residents over the age to 14 to register totalling 4,741,971 people in four months.
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Becuase there was a lack of manpower during WWII, the U.S. brought in Mexican citizens to work in the U.S. temorarilly to keep the economy going strong.
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Ellis Island closed because it was allowing too many people into the U.S. The immigration levels were at an alltime high, and the governemnt wanted to slow things down.
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though the programs were canceled, many migrant workers continued to come to the U.S. without any papers, sstarting an era of undocumented migration.
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(exact date not specified) 3.4 million people here illegally, the first official record.
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the proposition would have denied health care, education, and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants.
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recruits civilians to patrol the US-Mexican Border
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contruction of about 700 miles of a double-layered fence is allowed on the sounthern border. It also directs the secretary of homelan security to take action to stop any illegal entry of undocumnted immagrants.
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This law was extremely controversial because it gave the authorities the right to investigate the status of someone's residency based on "reasonable suspicion". After this passed in Arizona, five more like this passed in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah. This began the issue of Racial Profiling.
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This law allows Arizona to suspend or revoke the licenses of buisnessed if they chose to employ illegal immigrants.
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This act allows some undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States if they came here when they were children. This benefitted more than 800,000 people.
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This saved around 4.7 million people from getting deported. These people were those who had children in the United States, and allowed to remain here temporarily. Those people could legally apply for jobs and join American socierty but could not vote and did not qualify for the presidents healthcare law. It applied to those who have been here at least five years.
