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Steerage Act
Established standards to be followed by ships carrying passenges to the United States. -
Passenger Act
Established standards to be followed by ships carrying passenges to the United States, and penalties for captains not ensuring these standards -
Immigration Act
Was designed to increase the flow of laborers to the United States during the disruptions of the Civil War -
Page Law
The first piece of American legislation to attempt to directly regulate immigration.
It was aimed at the abuses surrounding Chinese immigration but in fact reflected a growing anti-Asian feeling in the United States
It also marked a growing expansion of federal power following settlement of states’ rights issues during the Civil War -
Chinese Exclusion Act
First federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years. Prohibited Chinese in U.S. from citizenship.Prohibited convicts, lunatics, and others unable to care for themselves from entering.Head tax placed on immigrants -
Immigration Act
Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated a 50 cents tax would be levied on all aliens landing at United States ports. An act in which the State Commission and officers were in charge of checking the passengers upon incoming vessels arriving in the U.S. -
Contract Labor Law
Forbade American individuals or organizations from taking part in labor contracts with individuals prior to their immigration to the United States, and forbade ship captains from transporting immigrants under labor contracts. -
Immigration Act
This act declared that certain classes of individuals were unfit to become American citizens included: idiots, insane persons, and paupers. The immigrants who came to the United States carrying a contagious disease were also not permitted entry. Anyone who had been convicted of a felony, misdemeanor, or any other crime such as any activity deemed contrary to the beliefs and standards of society. -
Geary Act
It extended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act for an additional 10 years, and required persons of Chinese descent to have and carry identification papers. -
Scott Act
The Scott Act extended Chinese exclusion laws indefinitely. -
Immigration Act
It provided for literacy tests for those over 16 and established an "Asiatic Barred Zone," which barred all immigrants from Asia.Under the Wilson administration, Congress passed the first comprehensive immigration act which included a literacy test requirementThe Commission recommended that the United States no longer accept immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe and furthermore all immigrants were to pass a literacy test -
Quota Act
This cut southern and eastern European immigrants to less than 1/4 of those in US before WW IAsians still were prohibited; no limits on western hemisphereNon-quota category established: wives, children of citizens, learned professionals, and domestic servants not counted in quotas. -
Bracero Program
Once again during World War II there was a labor shortage and immigrants were needed to fill the gap. The Bracero Program marked the first official negotiation between México and the U.S. With U.S. workers shipping off to fight, and many farm workers stepping into the industrial jobs, the U.S. needed labor. It ended in 1964. -
Magnuson Act
This act repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, established quotas for Chinese immigration, and allowed Chinese nationals in the U.S. to become naturalized citizens. -
McCarran-Walter Act
It meant to exclude certain immigrants from immigrating to America, after World War II and in the early Cold War. It focused upon denying immigrants who were unlawful, immoral, diseased in any way, politically radical and accepting those who were willing and able to assimilate into the US economic, social, and political structures -
Real ID Act
National levels for drivers licenses and non-driver identification cards were established; definitions of terrorist organizations and terrorist activity were expanded; criteria for asylum eligibility was modified; judicial review of certain immigration decisions were further limited; waiver authority to construct barriers along the border was expanded; an aviation screening database was established -
Secure Fence Act
It is a part of President George W. Bush’s effort on immigration reform which was intended to allow the Department of Homeland Security to gain operational control over the entire United States-Mexico border and maritime border. The Act addresses the evaluation and construction of physical barriers and advanced technology in reinforcing fencing along the southern U.S. borderenforcing the security of immigration in specified areas. -
Arizona SB 1070
All law enforcement officers of the State, counties, cities and towns in Arizona determine the immigration status of every person. If suspesion occurs about the status of a person being illegal can result in an investigation. -
Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act (Alabama HB 56)
If police have "reasonable suspicion" that a person is an immigrant unlawfully present in the United States, in the midst of any legal stop, detention or arrest, to make a similarly reasonable attempt to determine that person's legal status. An exemption is provided if such action would hinder an official investigation of some kind
It prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving any public benefits at either the state or local level, the transporting or harboring of illegal immigrant. -
USA Patriot Act
Changed the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for deportable due to terrorist activities to include an alien who: is a representative of a political, social, or similar group whose political support terrorist acts that threatens U.S. antiterrorist efforts; has used a position of prominence to back terrorist activity, or to persuade others to support such activity in a way that undermines U.S. antiterrorist efforts
