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The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. [5] The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country. The types of ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Onofre Bejona spent his 34th birthday riding the bus alone, readying himself for the next three years of his life. It was Aug. 14, and the teacher had arrived in Broward ...
A native of Capari in the former Yugoslavia, Acevska came to the United States with her family in 1966. [5] [6] She relinquished U.S. citizenship in 1995 to become the first Macedonian Ambassador to the United States. [7] N/A 1995: No: Valdas Adamkus: Politician Naturalized Lithuania: Adamkus was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and came to Chicago ...
The Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003 (Republic Act No. 9225) made Filipino Americans eligible for dual citizenship in the United States and the Philippines. [214] Overseas suffrage was first employed in the May 2004 elections in which Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was reelected to a second term. [215]
Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School, in Union City, California becomes the first school in the United States named for a Filipino American. [162] [164] 2017, Oscar A. Solis becomes the first Filipino American Catholic diocesan bishop in the United States; [165] he was elevated to a bishop in Los Angeles in 2004, being the first Filipino American ...
In Fort Worth and across Texas, teacher workforce is whiter than schools. Most years, nearly two-thirds of students in Fort Worth ISD are Hispanic, but Hispanic teachers make up only about a ...
A 2015 study found that Mexican immigration to the United States was associated with an increase in aggravated assaults and a decrease in property crimes. [112] A 2016 study finds no link between immigrant populations and violent crime, although there is a small but significant association between undocumented immigrants and drug-related crime ...
By 1938, around 14,000 Filipino students had received their education in the United States, some going onto important positions upon returning to the Philippines. [ 21 ] [ 79 ] Some of these students would go on to fund their education as domestic workers , with some attending Chapman College and the University of Southern California, with a ...