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The Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935 established for Filipino people living in the United States a repatriation program. It provided free transportation for Filipino residents of the continental United States who wished to return to the Philippines but could not afford to do so. [1]
This limited Filipino immigration to the United States to 50 people a year, even less than the 100 allotted to Japan and China. [3] To deal with the Filipinos that already came to America, the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935 was passed, offering a paid one way ticket for Filipinos to return home, as long as they promised never to return. [3]
This further increased the Filipino population in Hawaii which had at one point been 25% of agricultural workers on the islands. [9] The act also led to the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935. [10] This act extended the Asian-exclusion policy of the Immigration Act of 1924 to the soon-to-be-former territory. This policy hampered the domestic ...
Extended the War Brides Act to citizens of the Philippines and India. Pub. L. 79–471: 1946 Luce–Celler Act: Increased the quota from the Philippines and India to 100 immigrants annually. Permitted Filipino and Indian immigrants to be naturalized. Pub. L. 79–483: 1947 Extended the War Brides Act to Japan and Korea. 1948 Displaced Persons Act
Furthermore, the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935, which allowed federally subsidized passage for Filipinos to return to the Philippines, was passed in part due to growing anti-Asian sentiment caused by World War I and the U.S. acquisition of the Philippines. [6]
Tribal leaders are seeing persistent obstacles with repatriation from campuses. They identified that many campuses have poor storage conditions, a lack of funding for equipment to house the ...
Britain's White Star Line carried many immigrants to Philadelphia. The Washington Avenue Immigration Station was an immigrant processing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States located at the end of Washington Avenue at Pier 53 on the Delaware River, south of modern-day Penn's Landing waterfront district.
California lawmakers are considering a bill to make a statue memorializing the Mexican repatriation of the 1930s, an operation that involved deporting about a million people.