May 1924:TheImmigration Act of 1924limits the number of immigrants allowed into the United States yearly through nationality quotas. Under the new quota system, the United States issues immigration visas to 2 percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States at the ...
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The Cuban Adjustment Act, which is still in effect, also made it difficult or impossible to return Cubans who had no prior criminal records. Eventually, the Reagan Administration came up with controversial policy of high seas interdiction, which has been used in the Caribbean to some extent by...
Examples of such laws include the Neutralization Act of 1790 [9], the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 [10], and the Immigration Act of 1924 [11]. These laws illustrate that immigration law serves as a legal means not only to regulate the number of immigrants but also to respond to ...
The period from 1870 to 1920 was a time in US history when large numbers of immigrants continually arrived to bolster its population. With some notable exceptions, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, policy was relatively lax and enabled migrants to cross the oceans in search of a bet...
(DHS) that administers the country’s naturalization and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was dissolved by theHomeland Security Act of 2002and replaced by three components within the DHS: USCIS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
Remembering the Chinese Exclusion Act helps us consider the absence of national immigration laws for the first post-revolutionary century, and thus highlights the historical meaningless of concepts such as "legal immigrant" and "illegal immigrant" during that era. It also connects us to the ...
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