In the final year of the presidency ofHarry S. Truman, Congress further amended the Immigration Act of 1917 with its passage of theImmigration and Nationality Act of 1952, known as the McCarran-Walter Act. The law allowed Japanese, Korean, and other Asian immigrants to seek naturalization and...
It also connects us to the ethnically and nationally discriminatory laws that developed from the 1882 Exclusion Act through the 1920s Quota Acts (and lasted until the 1965 Immigration Act), under which "legal" and "illegal" were still far from consistent or stable categories....
It appeared to be that the ultimate decision in regard of the acts was not economical as the Congress would state, but it was more of racist factorial; although, the economic factors sure did play part, because from the exclusion of the Chinese decreased in the capital that masters and ...
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1. Apart from the inter consorts and imperial clansmen, the entourages were about 100, 000(some said 200, 000) people such as artisans, medical officers, musicians, prostitutes, the chamberlain and so on, which is the largest immigration in the history of Northern Song dynasty. ...
to America. Criticism of Italians became integral to the successful legislative drives to enact the nativist Literacy Test in 1917 and National Origins Acts in 1921 and 1924. Within Little Italies, immigrants created New World societies. A network of Italian language institutions—newspapers, theaters...
Almost everyone agrees with that statement, but that doesn’t put them in the pro-immigration camp. Instead, I find that many people have a “what’s in it for us” attitude. They like the underlying concept of programssuch as the EB-5 visathat attract immigrants with money, and they ...
acts that outlawed discrimination in American life, the 1965 Immigration Act transformed America. Record numbers of new immigrants have arrived in the subsequent five decades—along with border fences, detention centers, and xenophobia. A look back at the 1965 Act helps us understand how we got ...
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