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Hull House
During the year 1880 in Chicago, the most famous of many "settlement houses," known as Hull House was founded by Progressive social reformer Jane Addams. Hull House was organized to aid the poor urban immigrants.
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Haymarket Riot
In the middle of a nationwide labor upset, thousands of workers peacefully join in Chicago's Haymarket Square to hear speeches by anarchist leaders (mostly German immigrants), when Chicago police attempt to move in to turn away the crowd, a bomb is lobbed into police lines, causing police to open fire on the crowd. As a result, at least 7 policemen and 4 workers are killed. The Haymarket Riot ignites fear among many Americans of the dangers of foreign-born radicalism. That fear remains today. -
The Ford Committee
An investigative committee of Congress, known as the For Committee, reported thatthe unauthorized immigration of anarchists, criminals, and paupers into the United States has become a severe social issue. -
Naturalization Act of 1906
The Naturalization Act of 1906, makes the knowledge of the English language a requirement for citizenship for the first time. -
Expatriation Act
The Expatriation Act was passed, requiring that any American woman who marries a foreign man will immediately aquire the nationality of her husband while forfeiting her United States citizenship. -
The Passing of the Great Race
Eugenicist, Madison Grant publishes The Passing of the Great Race in America. A pseudo-scientific attack against "undesirable" New Immigrants. Grant suggests that the "great race" of Anglo-Saxon Americans will soon be obliterated by "the weak, the broken and the mentally crippled of all races" if the government doesn't block Southern and Eastern European immigrants from settling in the country. -
The Immigration Act of 1921
The Act of 1921, a benchmark law placed the first quotas, on most immigration. -
Cable Act
The Cable Act was passed, partially repealing the Expatriation Act of 1907. The new law requires American women to only forfeit their U.S. citizenship when marrying an Asian. -
The Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota, which provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people from each nationality in the United States, with the complete exclusion Asian immigrants. -
Border Patrol
To help police increase stringent immigration controls, Congress creates the Border Patrol. -
Albert Einstein
A German Jew, and the world's greatest theoretical physicist, known to us as Albert Einstein, immigrates to the United States to escape the persecution of Germany's new Nazi government. -
Smith Act
The Smith Act passes, requiring that all foreign residents of the United States to register with the government and criminalizes any form of association with any group that promotes the overthrow of the government by force or violence. -
War Brides Act
Congress passes the War Brides Act, allowing foreign women married to American soldiers during the war to enter the country, even if they would normally be blocked from entry by restrictive quotas or the Asiatic Barred Zone. -
Immigration Act of 1965
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Cellar Act, which has dramatically changed the method by which immigrants are admitted to America. This act not only allows more individuals from third world countries to enter the US, but also includes a separate quota for refugees. This bill made it possible for future immigrants to be welcomed because of their skills/professions, and not for their countries of origin. -
The Act of November 29, 1990
Public Law 101-649 commonly known as the Act of November 29, 1990, increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States.Revising all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements. -
Machine-Readable Passports
Travelers from countries granted the postponement are able to continue to travel, without a machine-readable passport. However, on October 26, 2004 a machine-readable passport or U.S. visa will be required at the port of entry, to enter the U.S. without a visa. Countries such as: Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K. -
John Morton
John Morton, director of I.C.E. that has radically changed immigration enforcement by applying prosecutorial discretion to focus deportations on convicted criminals while sparing illegal immigrants with no criminal histories, was appointed in 2009 by Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security -
Arizona
In April 2010, Arizona passed two immigration laws, SB 1070 and HB 2162. Laws which added new state requirements, crimes and penalties related to the enforcement of immigration laws.
