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IT REQUIRED FOR IMMIGRANTS TO HAVE LIVED IN THE UNITED STATES FOR TWO YEARS IN ORDER TO BECOME US CITIZENS.
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that directed the clerk of the court to record the entry of all aliens into the United States.
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CREATED A SET OF RULES FOR THE PROCESS OF NATURALIZING A PERSON FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY. ALSO INCLUDES PENALTIES AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES
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the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable."[1] The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a forced laborer, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country.
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THE GEARY ACT BASICALLY ADDED STRENGTH TO THE CHINESSE EXCLUSION ACT.
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REVISED THE LAW FROM 1870 AND REQUIRED IMMIGRANTS TO LEARN ENGLISH IN ORDER TO BECOME NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
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Expatriation Act declares that an American woman who marries a foreign national loses her citizenship
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Ddded to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective”
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restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy
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Targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than ethnicity or religion.
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The Johnson-Reed Act limits annual European immigration to 2 percent of the number of nationality group in the United States in 1890.
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Required nationality at Birth.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed. By the end of the 1940s, all restrictions on Asians acquiring U.S. citizenship are abolished
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The Displaced Persons Act allowed Europeans displaced by the war to enter the United States outside of immigration quotas
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Refugee Relief Act extends refugee status to non-Europeans.
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implemented in May of 1954 by the U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, and utilized special tactics to combat the problem of illegal border crossing and residence in the United States by Mexican nationals, had to send most immigrants back to their homes.
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also known as the Hart–Celler Act,[1] abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act
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Granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982.
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required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status,
made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants;
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Increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent.
