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Massachusetts Prohibits People from Entering
Colonial immigration laws were in place. Lame, impotent and infirm people were not allowed to enter without security that the town would not have to support them. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Naturalization Act
This allowed those who lived in the country for 2 years to apply for citizenship, but was restricted to "white people". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States -
Foreign Slave Trade
50,000 slaves were smuggled into the US even though foreign slave trade was made illegal. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
14th Ammendment
This stated that children who were born in the US were considered citizens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States -
Homestead Act
Government sold land to citizens and immigrants to encourage people to settle in the Mid West. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Immigration Laws
State Immigration Laws are said to be Unconstitutional.Congress starts to bring immigration "under direct Federal Control for the first time." Immigration was using a lot of resourses and was becoming overwelming so they had to make a change.
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The Expitration Act
This revoked citizenship of women who married a foreigner, mostly not eligible for citizenship like Chinese and Japanese men. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Melting Pot
The Melting Pot play becomes the biggest hit on broadway. It is about immigration and immigrants coming from other places and being "molded into Americans". -
Mexican Revolution
Thousdands of Mexicans traveled north because of the Mexican Revolution. The US had jobs and agriculture opportunites as well as industry. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Immigration Act
This limmited the amount of immigrants that could enter the US down to 2% of the total number of people from that country that were already living in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 -
Border Control
The US border patrol and Labor Appropriation Act was established. This secured the borders with officers and agents. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Great Depression
During the Great Depression immigration was shut down by President Roosevelt and it went from 230,000 to 23,000 immigrants entering the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immigration_and_naturalization_in_the_United_States -
Undocumented Immigrants
The Bracero program ended and the era of undocumented immigrants began. Migrant workers and laborers continued to come from Mexico to the US. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Census
An estimated 1-2 million immigrants with undocumented papers are in the US and about half of them were from Mexico. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Immigration Act
Immigration Act of 1990 increased the limits on US legal immigration and revises deportation and exclustion. It also revised the naturalization laws. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
AFL CIO
The labor union supports amnesty for the US immigrants illegally. It allowed all working people to have more rights, if they were legal or not. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
Secure Fence
Hundreds of miles of fence divide the countries and resrict border crossing. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023 -
AZ LAW
Controversial Arizona Bill was made a law that allowed the state authority to handle illegal immigrants. A crime to be in the state illegally. http://immigration.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000023
