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Dec 21, 2018 · 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...
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Sep 30, 2015 · The United States began regulating immigration soon after it won independence from Great Britain, and the laws since enacted have reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times. We looked at key immigration laws from 1790 to 2014.
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Many acts of Congress and executive actions relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United States Code.
YearTitleDescription2022Shadow Wolves Enhancement ActRecognized the Shadow Wolves as ICE ...2021Securing America's Ports ActPub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United ...2020Citizenship for Children of Military ...Guaranteed that the children of U.S.2019Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for ...Provided emergency spending on border ...During the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, the United States had limited regulation of immigration and naturalization at a national level. Under a mostly prevailing " open border " policy, immigration was generally welcomed, although citizenship was limited to “white persons” as of 1790, and naturalization subject to five year ...
Survey of the most important United States immigration laws, policies and court rulings since the founding of the country.
This fact sheet serves as a guide and timeline of all major U.S. immigration laws from 1790 through the present. Starting with the 1790 Naturalization Act, which established the country's first uniform naturalization law, the work examines the laws through 2006, when Congress enacted the Secure Fence Act after the Senate failed to adopt ...
17 hours ago · ANDREW SANDOVAL-STRAUSZ: Between the 1870s and the middle of the 1910s, about 23.5 million people immigrated to the United States, mostly from Europe, also to some extent from Asia and some from ...
