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The beginning of America as a nation is also the beginning of immigration issues
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This act allowed free white persons of "good character" to apply for citizenship after living in America for two years.
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The banning of slave importation changes the amount of people immigrating into the U.S. drastically.
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The potato famine casued many Irish people to immigrate to America looking for work and a fresh start.
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Many members from the Knownothing Party, who were against immigration, were elected
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This act allowed immigrants as well as the poor land to live on as long as they lived there for five years and imporved the land over that time. Many more immigrants began coming to America for this opportunity.
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The construction of the railroad brought a new wave of immigrant laborers from Ireland and China
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Gave citizrnship to whites and African Americans but excluded Native Americans adn Asians
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This act enforces a fifty cent tax on immigrants coming into the United States.
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This law banned companys from bringing foreigners into the country as laborers.
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More than sixteen million immigrants have been processed at this famous island in New York.
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This act took away a woman's citizenship if she was married to an immigrant. It was put into place in the hopes of decreasing immigration into the U.S.
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The Border Patrol is created to fight the increasing number of illegal immigrants coming to America
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This act makes it mandatory for all aliens above the age of 14 to be documented and fingerprinted
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This made the act of hiring an illegal immigrant against the law.
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This act made it so illegal immigrants did not recieve benefits from the government
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In Respnse to 9/11, the Patriot Act was created and more restrictions on immigrants were put into place.
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This Arizona law made it legal for police officers to demand a person's citizenship papers when they are pulled over or questioned.
