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Chinese Exclusion Act
stopped entry of Chinese immigrants into the US for 10 years -
Quota Act
This act limited the annual number of immigrants from each nationality to 3% of the number of foreign born persons of that nationality who were living in the US in 1910. -
Immigration Act
established a new quota system for each nationality and set a limit on the total number of immigrants to be allowed entry at all (150000 per year). The quota system that resulted from these acts served as the basis for US immigration policy for more thatn 35 years. -
National Origins Act
established a new quota system for each nationality and set a limit on the total number of immigrants to be allowed entry at all (150000 per year). The quota system that resulted from these acts served as the basis for US immigration policy for more thatn 35 years. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Imposed servere penalties on employers who willfully hired illegal aliens. Employers who repeatedly violate this law can be jailed for up to 6 months.
the law also included an amnesty program -
Amnesty Program
from the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1988, illegal ailens who could prove that they had been in this country continuously for at least 5 years could apply to abtain temporary legal residency states. -
Immigration Act
increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements. -
Proposition 187
It denied public social services publicly funded health care, and public education to people who were suspected of being illegal aliens. -
Immigration Reform Act
most recent attempt to stem illegal immigration.
tjos act had many provision aimed at curbing illegal immigration into the US. -
Welfare Reform Act
Prohibited immigrants including legal immigrants who are not et citizens from recieving most forms of public assistance including wellfare benifits
