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This is a road made to link California to the Union during the American Civil War. This road was built by immigrants.
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Prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesireable". http://www.asianamericannation.com/page-act.html
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The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
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This law prohibits the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the US, and its territories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Contract_Labor_Law
http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1885_contract_labor_law.html
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A US law that prohibited Chinese laborers abroad from returning and reside within the US and its territories. It is an expansion of the Chinese Exclusion Act that was passed in 1882. http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1902_scott_act.html
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This law requires all Chinese residents of the US to carry with them a cgertificate of residence permit or passport. If the law not followed correctly they will punish them by deportation or hard labor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_Act
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This act restricted immigration into its country. They imposed a quota that limited the # of immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country who lived in the US. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Emergency_Quota_Act.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act
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Allows you to revise and see who is eligible for citizenship through birth or naturalization requirements. This law allows to revise the existing laws of the US and form it into a nationality code. http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1940_naturalization_act.html
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Allow the entrance of foreign-born spouses and unmarried children of members of the US Armed Forces regardless of race if marriage occured before March 19, 1952. http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1950_act_on_alien_spouses_and_children.html
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An Act to amend the immigration and Nationality Act to provide preferential treatment in the admission of certain children of US citizens. http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/1982_amerasian_immigration_act.html
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An act to ammend the Immigration and Nationality act to change the level, and preference system for admission
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Introduced by the senate, it would provide permanent residency to certain undocumented residents who graduate from US highschool and that have lived in the country for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act
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This law enacted in 2005 and it required you to present a driver's license and identification card as well
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US federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the US for longer than 30 days to register with the US gov. and to have registration documents at all times, if violation it will reuie federal misdemeanor crime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
http://azdatapages.com/sb1070.html
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Illegal immigration was considered a crime
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