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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: Pub. L. 65–221: Statutes at Large: 40 Stat. 1012: Legislative history
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.
The 1866 Act read, "That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude" shall have the same rights "as is ...
The act was designed to allow the president to authorize the relocation, arrest or deportation of any man older than 14 years old who hailed from a country at war with the United States. The Alien ...
This is a chronological, but incomplete, list of United States federal legislation passed by the 57th through 106th United States Congresses, between 1901 and 2001. For the main article on this subject, see List of United States federal legislation .
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 ...
Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants if elected, a move that has only been invoked three times in the past 225 years.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.