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  2. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political refugees had special status. Numerical restrictions ended in 1965. In recent years, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States have come from Asia and Central America (see Central American crisis).

  3. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The first federal statute restricting immigration was the Page Act, passed in 1875. It barred immigrants considered "undesirable," defining this as a person from East Asia who was coming to the United States to be a forced laborer, any East Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country.

  4. Immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Between 1970 and 2007, the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States quadrupled from 9.6 million to 38.1 million residents. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Census estimates show 45.3 million foreign born residents in the United States as of March 2018 and 45.4 million in September 2021, the lowest three-year increase in decades.

  5. Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s)... of good character". This eliminated ambiguity on how to treat newcomers, given ...

  6. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    At that time, plantation-based colonies absorbed the vast majority of European immigrants (and enslaved Africans). [3] During the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, the origins of Spanish immigrants were strongly drawn from the Spanish southwest, with the majority of settlers coming from Andalusia, Extremadura and Castile. [4]

  7. Letters: Immigrants helped build America and power the ... - AOL

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    Historically, America was built by immigrants, people who had nothing and needed to work hard to survive. They built economies and families. They contributed to America. Thank goodness for immigrants.

  8. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 - Wikipedia

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    All nation-level quotas were dropped and replaced by a limit of 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere on a first-come, first-serve basis, but while setting cap of no more than 20,000 from any one country. [27] For the first time, immigration from within the Western Hemisphere was also restricted, legally capped at 120,000 annually. [27]

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