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In order to become a US citizen the immigrant had to have lived in the US for two years.
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The first act restricting immigration.
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allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigrantion, a ban that extended for 10 years
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Imposed a 50 cent head tax to funs immigration officials
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established a Commissioner of immigrantion in the Treasury Department. This act, in amendment to other various acts, allows immigrants/ aliens to come into the U.S. under contact or agreement to preform labor.
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extended and stregthened the Chinese Exclusion Act
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added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitues. Bars anarchist and other political extremists.
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combined naturaliziation and immigrantion into a Bureua of Immigrantion and Naturalization, required knowlegde of English a requirement for naturaliziation, ans setup standard proceducers, forms and fees.
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restricted immigrant for certain classes of disabled and diseased people. excludes ‘imbeciles’, ‘feeble-minded’, people afflicted with a physical or mental disability, with TB, children not accompanied by a parent, individuals who have committed ‘crimes of moral turpitude’
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informal agreement between the U.S. and Japan stating that no one from Japan can emigrate to the U.S.
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barred immigration from nations in the Asia-Pacific triangle
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imposed numerical limits on immigration, capping immigration to 350,000/year, and to 3% of the number of people from countries already living in the U.S. in 1910, favoring immigrants from northwestern Europe, except for immigration from western hemisphere (Canada, Latin America, Caribbean).
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Created the U.S. Border Patrol
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reduced the overall cap to 165,000/year, and the country cap to 2% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1890.
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went into effect creating a consular control system, required a visa from an American consular office in the home country, and non-immigrant / temporary visitors. But immigrants from western hemisphere nations were exempt as well as wives and unmarried minor children of male U.S. citizens
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during WWII required registration and fingerprinting of all foreigners over the age of 14, and made membership in proscribed political organizations grounds for exclusion and deportation.
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begins large-scale importation of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico bringing a total of 5 million Mexican field workers into the U.S.
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relocation/concentration camps until the end of WWII.
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makes past or present membership in the Community party or any other totalitarian political party grounds for inadmissibility and deportation
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created one comprehensive statue from the previous immigration related laws, eliminating race as a basis of exclusion, but retained the racist national-origins quota system. For countries outside the western hemisphere the annual quota was set at 1/6th of one percent of the number of persons of that ancestry living in the U.S. as of 1920 (mainly benefiting the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany), and a quota for skilled worke
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implemented to deport Mexicans, including some legal and U.S. citizens of Mexican descent
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created to resettle Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. Includes Laotian refugees in 1976.
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granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
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increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent. Family reunification was retained as the main immigration criterion, with significant increases in employment-related immigration.
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made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief.
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required airport screeners to be U.S. citizens, and the screening process to be taken over by the federal government.
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created more restrictions on political asylum, severely curtailed habeas corpus relief for immigrants, increased immigration enforcement mechanisms, altered judicial review, and imposed federal restrictions on the issuance of state driver's licenses to immigrants and others.
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2006: Secure Fence Act called for the building of an additional 850 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
