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The Filipino Repatriation Act provided free one-way transportation for single adults. Such grants were supplemented in some instances by private funds, such as from the California Emergency Relief Association, that paid passage for Filipino children who had been born in the United States so that they could return with their parents.
Aside from countries experiencing problems with peace and order, the Philippine government can also restrict deployment of Filipino workers to countries determined by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs to be non-compliant to the Republic Act 10022 also known as Amended Migrant Workers Act.
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 ...
Atlaoui's repatriation will follow those in December of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino mother and former domestic helper who was sentenced to death in 2010, and five remaining members of the "Bali ...
Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S ...
In court filings, the government contended the Guantanamo Bay operation was "meant to be a temporary stopover" on the path to repatriation. Guantanamo Bay migrant detainees removed from base: ICE ...
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