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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This was a peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican-American War. It gave the U.S. ownership of California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Mexicans in those areas had the choice of returning to Mexico or becoming U.S. citizens with full rights. -
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Immigration Policies
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14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to former slaves. So slaves had equal protection. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur. They allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration. The law was repealed by the Magnuson Act. -
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
the United States Supreme Court ruled that everyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
Geary Act
The law required all Chinese residents of the United States to carry a resident permit. If they failed to carry the permit at all times they were punished by being deported or has a year of hard labor. In addition, Chinese were not allowed to bear witness in court and could not receive bail. -
Asiatic Exclusion League
This law was an organization that present immigration of people of Asian origin. -
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
It was an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the U.S. woudl not impose restriction on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U.S.The agreement ended in 1942 because it was never ratified by Congress. -
California Alien Land Law of 1913
This law prohibited aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning agricultural land or posessing long-term leases over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years.It affected the Chinese, Idian, Japanese, and Korean immigrant farmers in California. -
Immigration Act of 1917
The act added to the numberof undesirable ban from enterinc the country, including byt not limited to homosexual, idiots, alcoholics, professional beggars, criminals, and all persons mentally or physically defective. -
Emergency Quota Act
This act restricted immigration into the United States.The act was meant to restrict the number of immigrations admitted from any country anually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any contry to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921. -
Luce-Celler Act of 1946
The act provided about 100 Filipinos and 100 Indians to immigrate into the United States per year. The act also allowed Filipino Americans and Indian Americans to naturalize and become United States Citizens. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
The act restricted immigration into the U.S. and is codified under Title 8 of the United States. The Act governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States. -
National Origins Formula
This was an American system of immigration quota, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population. The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the United States. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
This is an Act of Congress which reformed United States immigration law. It required employers to attest to their employee's immigration status, it made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit unauthorized immigrants, it legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants, and it legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Resposibility Act
The act states that immigrants unlawfully present in the United States for 180 days but less than 365 days must remain outside the United States for three years unless they obtains a pardon. -
Antirerrosim and Effective Death Penalty Act
An act congress signed into law. The AEDPA limits the power of federal judges to grant relief unless the state court's adjudication of the claim resulted in a decision that was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the US. -
U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
The Commission covered many faces of immigration policy but started from the perception that the credibility of immigration policy can be measured by a simple yardstick. -
The Dream Act
The DREAM Act would provide legal residency and a path to citizenship for illegal people who graduated from U.S. high schools and attended college or join the military. -
Real ID Act
An Act of Congress that modified US federal law pertaining to security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver's licenses and identification cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism. -
Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act
The act incorporated legalization, guest worker programs, and enhanced border security. -
Border Protection Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005
The act was limited to enforcement and focused on both the border and the interior. It was a crime to assist an illegal person to the US and if you did you would probably go to prison. -
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007
This act would have provided legal status and a path to citizenship for the approximately 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States.
