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Foreigners from the designated seven countries can only purchase a single piece of Florida land or a residence up to two acres, as long as it’s beyond a 10-mile radius of critical infrastructure ...
In Florida, foreign citizens own 6.3% of all private agricultural land, according to an analysis of the bill. Florida’s House of Representatives also noted the bill would have a significant ...
Many of these jurisdictional "hooks" can even reach conduct that affected the domestic citizen when the citizen was beyond his or her domestic borders. There are five such doctrines: [2] The territorial principle is the most important and widely used. It is the idea that a state may claim jurisdiction over persons and events inside its own ...
The court also struck down one-year residency requirements for voting in state elections in Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330 (1972); one-year waiting periods before receiving state-provided medical care in Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County, 415 U.S. 250 (1974); and civil service preferences for state veterans in Attorney
Legal experts compared the measure to century-old alien land laws that barred Asian Americans from owning land; Florida was one of the last states to repeal its law, in 2018. Chinese American ...
1921 - An alien land bill modeled after the California law is passed in the state legislature after failing to make it onto the 1920 ballot. As in California, ineligible aliens were prohibited from leasing land. [13] 1923 - The 1921 law is expanded to prevent the U.S.-born children of immigrants from holding land in trust for their parents. [1]
A new law that bans citizens of China and some other countries from purchasing property in large swaths of Florida violates federal housing discrimination laws, a lawyer representing Chinese ...
In 1824, Mexico enacted the General Colonization Law, which enabled all heads of household, regardless of race or immigrant status, to claim land in Mexico. Due to a large number of unassimilated American settlers and imported slaves, President Anastasio Bustamante outlawed further immigration of United States citizens to Texas through the Law ...