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Chinese Exclusion Acts / Immigration Exclusion Act
This act prohibited new Chinese immigrant from coming in to the US, also those who had left and wanted to return could not. -
immigration in the early 1900's
dramatic increase in immigration after the depression of 1890. -
decrease in immigrants
After the war, immigrant population dropped at an accelerated rate because of the deaths in it. It was a majority of European immigrants at this time, rather than Mexican. -
Immigration Legislative Act of 1917
Asiatic Barred Zone Act, was an act that limited immigration to the US stating, “Any country not owned by the U.S. adjacent to the continent of Asia” could not immigrate into the US.
It also imposed a literacy test that immigrants had to pass in order to be in this country; however those seeking refugee from their own country because of religious reasons did not have to pass the literacy test that included reading at least 40 words to show that they were profficient in reading. -
Ozawa v. United States
Was a case that denied Ozawa the ability to become a citizen because the "naturalization" did not extend its reaches to Japan. A race problem. -
Immigration act of 1924
Created quotas that had only 2% of the poplutaion in states allowed to be foreign, rather than the three the year before. It also increased the years in had the percentile be in from 1910 to 1890 instead.
Directed at Asians. -
Tydings-McDuffie Act
This act banned any and every Filipino from immigrating into the United States. -
Exclusion Acts
Even though it did not target Chinese directly, it was known that it was directed to them, and it prevented them from obtaining citizenship and owning any property. -
Magnuson Act
"lifted the barriers to citizenship for most immigrants of Asian origin."
This act enabled chinese to be elligable for citizenship, it also it repealed the Exclusion Act of 1882, and finally it established a quota for Chinese immigrants -
Immigrant Act (1965)
The Immigration Act of 1965 eliminated immigration quotas, and started establishing new criteria for immigrants. -
Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act (1975)
An act to enable the United States to render assistance to, or in behalf of, certain immigrants and refugees. It focused on those who would face violence in there hometown, therefore preventing deaths and providing a better life for those affected and provided financial help to those people. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
Africa; Asia; Europe; North America; Oceania; South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean are the six different regions distinguished in each state to promote diversity.It allows immigrants who have a high school diploma, have two years of work experience and two years of training in the certain postion to get a Visa to work in the USA. -
INR effect on professors
while the reform of 1990 was a great step in the right direction, a cap on H-1 visas for short-term visiting professors and research associates, created a "tremendous delay" in processing those visa applications in this year. -
California's Proposition 187
This proposition attempted to deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants. It basically states that we as a country do not care enough to create better low grade jobs, leaving them to immigrants, and we do not admit it, and would much rather punish those who go for them because it is all they can do. -
Obama reforms immigration
Obama creates a temporary "permanent residency" for illegal immagrints as long as they have a clean background check, have been in the U.S. for the last five years, and have children who are citiizens. The "temporary" is due to the need for renewing every three years
