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  2. Immigration Act of 1918 - Wikipedia

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    Immigration Act of 1918; Other short titles: Dillingham-Hardwick Act: Long title: An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes. Nicknames: Alien Anarchists Exclusion Act of 1918: Enacted by: the 65th United States Congress: Effective: October 16, 1918: Citations; Public law ...

  3. Alien Naturalization Act - Wikipedia

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    The Alien Naturalization Act, Sess. 2, ch. 69, 40 Stat. 542, was a May 9, 1918 Act of the 65th United States Congress.. More than 192,000 aliens were naturalized between May 9, 1918-June 30, 1919, under this act.

  4. List of United States immigration laws - Wikipedia

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    1918 Immigration Act of 1918: Expanded on the provisions of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Pub. L. 65–221: 1920 Passport Act of 1920: Pub. L. 66–238: 1921 Emergency Quota Act: Limited the number of immigrants a year from any country to 3% of those already in the US from that country as per the 1910 census, establishing the National Origins ...

  5. The Alien Enemies Act was supposed to expire with the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1801, ... Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria, in 1918 the act was amended to only apply to men, ...

  6. Alien and Sedition Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. [a] The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president additional powers to detain non ...

  7. Internment of Italian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Under this provision, which was first defined and enacted in 1798 (in the Alien Enemies Act, one of the four Alien and Sedition Acts) and amended in 1918 (in the Sedition Act of 1918) to apply to females as well as to males, all "natives, citizens, denizens or subjects" of any foreign nation or government with which the United States is at war ...

  8. Ignatius Paul Pollaky - Wikipedia

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    Ignatius Paul Pollaky (po'laki; 1828 – 25 February 1918) also known as "Paddington" Pollaky, born in Hungary, became one of the first and best-known professional private detectives in Britain. He also worked with London's Metropolitan Police , specialising in intelligence on aliens living in Britain and advocating alien registration , which ...

  9. Sedition Act of 1918 - Wikipedia

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    The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub. L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.