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Established tules for naturalized citizenship
No restrictions on Immigration
Citizenship limited to white persons -
Lengthened residency requirements on gaining citizenship
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Including Naturalization Act of 1798 Increased residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years
Allowed for deportation and imprisionment of "aliens" -
First US legistlation regulating migrants to and from US
First US regulated data collection of immigrants
Included "Act regulating passenger-ships and bessels" -
Repealed Manifest of Immigrants Act
Limited ship passangers
Attempted to improve emmigrant ship conditions , as to reduce ill emmigrants entering the US -
African Americans "gain citizenship"
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Increased controls on naturalization
Included Africans and African Americans
Did not include other non-whites -
Restrictive Immigration law
Prohibited entry of "undesirable" parties
"Undesirable" classes included forced laborers, some people of Asian descent, convitcs, etc. -
Supreme Court Decesion
Declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional
Gave congress powers to regulate "foreign commerce" -
5.2 million or more people emmigrate to the US
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Allowed US suspension of Chinese immigration for up to 10 years
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Introduced $0.50 head tax
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Meant to decrease emmigration of laborers to the US
Made it illegal for US individuals and orginizations from soliciting labor from immigrants before emmigration -
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Revision of 1882 immigration Act
Created Comissioner of Immigration (treasury department) -
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Extended Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 years
Added requirements that Chinese must aquire and carry ID papers -
Added excludable classes including anarchists and importers of prostitutes.
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Required Immigrants to learn English to become naturalized
Established Federal Government as sole executor of naturalization policy -
Srnadardized naturalization
Made knowledge of English a requirement for citizenship
Established Bereau of Immigration and Naturalization Modified by Immigration Act of 1990 -
Added excludable classes
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Reported on assumed inferiority of "new immigrants"
Reccomended literacy test -
AKA Barred Zone Act
Restriced immigration from Asia
Reading test for all immigrants over age 14 -
Restricted annual immigration from given coutry to 3% of the amount living in the US as of 1910
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AKA Johnson Act Aimed to counter increasing immigration from South and East Europe and Asia
Nationality Quotas
Introduced National Orgina Formula: Total annual immigration 150,000, quota nations and non-quota nations.
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Nationality at birth
Nationality through naturalization
Loss of nationality Defined who was eligible for citizenship
Defined status of people born in territories or abroad
Defined how citizenship could be lost -
Repealed Chinese Exclusion Act
Permitted resident Chinese nationals to apply for citizenship -
Made progress in Asian immigration
Increased government power to deport undocumented immigratns suspected of Communist sympathies -
AKA Hart-Cellar Act Struck down national-orgin quotas
But prefrence to those with US relatives
Mexican Immigration restricted for 1st time -
Gave Cuban nationals who reside in or emmigrate to US legal status
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Created oathways for undocumented immigrants who had been in the country before 1982, when it became illegal to hire an undocumented worker
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Increased total immigration to 700,00
Increased visas by 40%
Increased Family Reunification
Increased employment-related immigration
Creation of Diversity Immigrant Visa Program -
Large changes in asylum law
Large changes in immigrant detention
Large changes in criminal-based immigration
Large changes in immigrant relief -
Increased political asylum restirctions
Lessened habeas corpus for immigrants
Increaed enforcement
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Expanded Anarchist Exclusion Act