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Banned Chinese Immigration for the next 10 years due to a growing sentiment of nativism.
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Allowed the government to deport illegal aliens and was the first comprehensive immigration laws the country had established.
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Allowed only a percentage of the current immigrants from a nation to come to America.
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Allowed current illegal residents amnesty but increased border security.
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This Act made border patrol more strict and also made welfare benefits for illegal immigrants harder to obtain.
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Created the Border Patrol Agency and required schools to report foreign students.
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Commonly called DACA, this program allowed children brought at a young age illegally to remain here to work or be educated.
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This executive order issued by President Trump banned immigration temporarily from certain middle eastern countries and rejected Syrian refugees indefinitely.