For Illeglas Take Action
Make Legals Take Pay Taxes
1888- Provisions were adopted, the first since 1798 to provide for expulsions of aliens
1906- Knowledge of English was made a basic requirement as a procedural safgaurd
1907- Added people with physical or mental defects and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list.
1917- Illiterates, people of psychopathic inferiority, men and women entering for immoral reasons, alcoholics, stoways, and vagrants were added to the list of exclusions
Changing Our Minds
1882- Chinese Exclusion Act
allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years
1903- Immigration Act
standardized naturalization procedures, made some knowledge of English a requirement for citizenship, and established the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
1966- Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act
Gave Cuban nationals who enter, or were already present, in the U.S legal status
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Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.