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Congress allowed any free, white, adult person to gain citizenship
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After the war of 1812 immigration increases and Irish immigrants start coming to the United states. They were mainly in cities with ports like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston
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The supreme court decides that it is up to the federal government to make immigration policies.
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Major industrialization starts and starts and chinese immigrants come a big part of industrial labor force.
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The chinese exclusionary act was an act that banned chinese people from from entering the united states.
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The immigration act of 1891 put more restrictions on immigration for example polygamists, convicts, and others.
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Ellis island became the first station for immigration in the united states. It was in the New York harbor and it was made to process immigrants
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This act establishes a literacy requirements for immigrants in order for them to be allowed entrance into the country.
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This act limited the abound of people who could immigrate into America by implementing quotas.
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The united states had a labor shortage because of WW2 so they made a program with Mexico that allowed Mexican agriculturalists to come to America and work.
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This act was passed to end the limits on people who could immigrate to the united states.
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President Ronald Regan signed an act that granted amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented people in America.
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The DREAM act to provide a way for undocumented students to achieved citizens was proposed and eventually passed.
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Donald Trump issued executive orders to restrict travel from Muslim countries