Immigration law for the first time in the U.S. was in 1798, the Aliens Act, which deals with the deportation and was intended less to deal with immigrants in order to suppress the opposition party of Jefferson. After Jefferson's Alien and Sedition Acts repealed, except for the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limits citizenship "free white persons" was a nonissue to restrict immigration for 80 years. Between 1820 and 1930, the United States received 60 percent of all immigrants in the world. America is growing and in need of workers. Anti-immigrant impulse in 1840 and 1850 he lived in the movement; he knew nothing, and the American side, none of which managed to implement the restriction. Immigration control is a branch of government, federal, no. And most of the immigrants worked in accordance with the state, rather than restrict them.
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An exception was the West, where the rule of the 1870s began to restrict property rights and citizenship in Asia. West called on the national legislation, in 1875, Congress restricted the men in white and black citizens. The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the law until 1943, banned Chinese immigration. Under the Cable Act of 1922, repealed in 1936, women married Asian men lost their U.S. citizenship. From 1890 to 1920, eugenics, restrictionists, and defenders of Americanism, to undo the changes made to the new immigrants with different values, lifestyles, and religions. The law prohibits the entry of poor, sick and mentally retarded offenders. After the First World War, the Ku Klux Klan has joined the chorus against immigrants. Since 1924 the National Origins Act set quotas based on the percentage of the amount of immigration before the new immigration. In 1945, the united States were more homogeneous than at any time prior to 1890.