March 1790:Congress passes the first law about who should be granted U.S. citizenship. The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows any free white person of “good character,” who has been living in the United States for two years or longer, to apply for citizenship. Without citizenship, nonwhite...
High levels of illegal immigration into the United States began in the 1940s. World War II created labor shortages, leading to the creation in 1942 of the Bracero Program, which imported workers from Mexico with the intention of returning them to Mexico when they were no longer needed. However...
foreign relations and immigration policy with Mexico from the start of the Bracero Program in 1942 until the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Using records of congressional hearings from the Committee on the Judiciary and other government documents it...
Whatever their intentions, it is also important to judge the ability of unknown others to act on their motivations, assessing the degree to which they are capable of getting things done. These two dimensions of social perception are labeled warmth and competence and together they define a space ...
negotiation during the long run-up to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. A few Chinese had come to the United States—chiefly to East Coast ports—in the late eighteenth century in connection with the China trade. After American missionaries were established in China, some Chinese, mostly ...
Daily Life at Crystal City Internment Camp 1942-1945 American internment camps, administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), imprisoned persons from the Axis countries of Japan, Italy, and ... CT Dietze 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Sang Yon Shin, Petitioner, V. Immigration and ...
In May 1942, David Ben-Gurion, representing the Jewish Agency at a Zionist conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City, gained support for a program, later termed the Biltmore Resolution, demanding unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, the creation of a Jewish army, and the establi...
perhaps Hope’s greatest gift was to generations of U.S. troops through his tours and performances with the United Service Organization (USO). First performing in 1941 in CA, Hope’s USO career spanned half a century, during which time he headlined approximately 60 tours. An act of Congress...
Just days before the evacuation of 1942, the Bainbridge High School baseball team opened the season against its traditional rival. They wanted badly to win, of course, but instead of using only the best players, the coach, “Pop” Miller, made sure that all six Nikkei players not only took...
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