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Importation of slaves into the United States is officially banned, though it continues illegally long after the ban.
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The residency requirement for citizenship is reduced to five years.
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centralized control over immigration under the Secretary of State with a Commissioner.
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created a system of controls for the naturalization process.
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established to to move immigration to the United States
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verify family members and verification of arrival.
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passed by Congress over President Wilson’s veto. This act, required a literacy test for immigrants and also barred all laborers from Asia.
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established the Border Patrol.
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reduced the number of Southern and Eastern European immigrants.
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Targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than ethnicity or religion.
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made a deal to citizenship for illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 then made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
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increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation,
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In order to become a naturlized citizen this law required an imiigrant to live in the U.S For at least 2 years
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Admission of contract laborers were banned.
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created for the first time penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal immigrants.
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Immigration law was consolidated.
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increased the categories of criminal activity for immigrants, including green cards they can be deported for certain types of deportation cases.
