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First law to give eligibility standards and procedures for immigrants to become a U.S. citizens.
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Western Europe starts gushing immigrants into the U.S. a lot were of Irish descent.
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This act is requiring better ship conditions and demographics of passengers. This will be the first federal records on the demographics of immigrants.
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Mexicans choosing to remain in the new United States territory due to the Mexican-American War were granted citizenship.
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Immigration restrictions were to be enforced federally and no longer through the state.
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All persons born in the United States are citizens.
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Extended the original one from white immigrants to now include aliens of African descent.
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This act was for the ineligibility for citizenship and limiting legal entry extremely toward the Chinese race.
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This is the next big wave of immigrants from European countries.
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The act was to exclude persons that were liable to end up a public charge, a lunatic, and/or undesirable attributes to enter the United States.
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Native Americans did not gain citizenship like stated in the 14th amendment. The amendment did't apply to Native Americans
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Forcing the immigration exclusions became a full time need so congress created the Immigration Bureau
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This act clarified the immigration enforcements of those in-charge and the excludable and deportable immigrants.
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Chinese and only Chinese need to carry a Certificate of Residence or face detention and deportation.
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Ellis Island opens as an immigration station.
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Anarchists were a new group that made them eligible to be removed if they were detained after being in the United States
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Women were stripped of their citizenship if they married noncitizen men.
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Teddy Roosevelt negotiated with Japan that the Japanese government would limit how many Japanese citizens would be able to become immigrants of the U.S.
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When we took Puerto Rico as a territory it allowed Puerto Ricans to become citizens of the U.S.
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During the war enforced immigration restrictions especially targeting anarchists and radicals. After the war there were caps on the amount of immigrants in fear of an increase after the war ended.
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The 19th amendment gave women rights so they lifted the Expatriation Act in 1907 and restored citizenship to the women with noncitizen husbands.
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Finally recognized Native Americans as citizens if born in the United States.
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This act was to put a quota on determining immigrants admissibility and this act was in place for a couple decades.
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United States granted the Philippines independent and were then immigrants of the U.S.
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Franklin Roosevelt had an executive order rounding up and incarcerating all Japanese Americans living within 100 miles or the west coast.
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Needing the China the government granted China the same immigration restrictions as Europe.
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The end of the year the War-time order was lifted ruling they were loyal.
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Due to the new act this allowed a new category of a visa for temporary stay.
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This ended racial restrictions on citizenship and provide quota for all nations.
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This law was added to be able to reunify family that were separated due to immigration quotas.
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This act changes the quota to a new system with a seven-category preference system emphasizing family reunion and skills.
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Ronald Regan granted amnesty to millions of immigrants illegally living in the U.S.
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Propose the first Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors so that undocumented immigrant children brought over by their parent have a pathway to become legal status.
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Donald trump stops travel and immigration from Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. Travel restrictions on Chad are lifted months later but the rest is still in effect.