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The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. [1] [2] Seven years later, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese men as well.
Henderson v. Mayor of City of New York, 92 U.S. 259 (1875) Chy Lung v. Freeman, 92 U.S. 275 (1875) – The power to set rules around immigration and foreign relations rests with the federal government rather than with state governments. Hauenstein v. Lynham, 100 U.S. 483 (1879) Elk v.
The court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and argued that the power to set immigration policy rested with the federal government. It decided that the requirement of a bond was a policy with a sufficiently-significant impact on international movement to be the exclusive domain of the federal government. [7] [8] Commissioners of Immigration v.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. 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 ...
Specifically, the law expanded the number of preference classes from 4 to 7, and assigned the first, second, fourth, and fifth preference classes to relatives, relegating immigrants with occupational skills needed in the U.S. workforce to the third and sixth preference classes, and creating a new seventh class of conditional entries for ...
Shortly after the American Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility. [50] In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875, also known as the Asian Exclusion Act. It outlawed the importation of ...
Case name Citation Summary Kidd v. Pearson: 128 U.S. 1 (1888) Scope of the Commerce Clause: Dent v. West Virginia: 129 U.S. 114 (1889) state licensing of doctors Botiller v. Dominguez: 130 U.S. 238 (1889) validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants within the Mexican Cession: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago: 130 U.S ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...