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	Immigration to the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Immigration to the United States of America is the act of immigrating, or moving, to territory within the United States culture and government.
		Immigration boomed to a 57.4% increase in foreign born population from 1990 to 2000.
		Total immigration for one year in 1820 was 8,385, gradually building to 23,322 by 1830 with 143,000 total immigrating during the intervening decade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States (11227 words)

	Legislative History from 1901 to Present
		Immigration Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Statutes-at-Large 1213) Immigration law was consolidated.
		Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Statutes-at-Large 874) Added to the exclusion list were illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as wel l as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants.
		Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (INA) (66 Statutes-at-Large 163) The multiple laws that governed immigration and naturalization were brought into one comprehensive statute.
	oriole.umd.edu /~mddlmddl/791/legal/html/immi1900.html (1196 words)

	Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight
		The rhetoric of making immigration policy more responsive to the nation's labor force needs was central to the politics of the 1990 Immigration Act, which almost tripled admissions for highly skilled workers and their families, raising the number admitted from 58,000 to 140,000 annually (Fix and Passel 1991).
		Immigration affects the racial-ethnic composition of the U.S. population as a whole in two ways: directly through the addition of new people and indirectly through immigrants having children.
		Immigration has, on balance, contributed somewhat to the declining fortunes of low-skilled workers, according to the weight of the evidence (Table B-3), although the scale of the estimated effects varies from study to study.
	www.urban.org /pubs/immig/immig.htm (15055 words)

	History
		While continuing the discriminatory practices of the immigration laws of the previous three decades, there was the beginning of the shift toward an emphasis on family reunification and occupational skills.
		The Immigration and Nationality Act has been amended a number of times since its conception; the most dramatic amendments were in 1965 when the national origins quota system was abolished.
		The Immigration and Refugee Act of 1975 was passed in response to the growing number of people fleeing Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the fall of these governments to Communism.
	www.tenement.org /immigrantexperience/history.htm (3282 words)

	Immigration - Wex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Immigration law serves as a gatekeeper for the nation's border: it determines who may enter, how long they may stay and when they must leave.
		The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA) (http://uscis.gov/lpBin/lpext.dll/inserts/slb/slb-1/slb-22?f=templatesandfn=document-frame.htm) with some major, and many minor, changes continues to be the basic immigration law of the country.
		The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d099:HR03737:TOM:/bss/d099query.html) of 1986 sought to limit the practice of marrying to obtain citizenship.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/immigration.html (544 words)

	South-Western: Immigration
		Current immigration redistributes wealth from unskilled workers, whose wages are lowered by immigrants, to skilled workers and owners of companies that buy immigrants' services, and from taxpayers who bear the burden of paying for the social services used by immigrants to consumers who use the goods and services produced by immigrants.
		The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (and subsequent amendments) eliminated the country-specific quota system and instead established a limit on the maximum number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. Under this Act, preferential treatment is given to those who immigrate for the purpose of family reunification.
		Immigration and Refugee Services of America is an organization that attempts to help immigrants and refugees in the U.S. In addition to describing their support programs, this website also provides information on the international problems that have resulted in refugee situations.
	www.swlearning.com /economics/policy_debates/immigration.html (2987 words)

	US immigration history.
		The United States of America has had a long history of immigration, from the first Spanish and English settlers to arrive on the shores of the country to the waves of immigration from Europe in the 19th century to immigration in the present day.
		The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act vastly increased the categories of criminal activity for which immigrants, including green card holders, can be deported and imposed mandatory detention for certain types of deportation cases.
		Anti-immigrant ideologues allegedly misunderstand the immigration process and do not realize that many immigrant workers - who they see as replacing American citizens in jobs they can do - have immigrated completely legally, albeit without citizenship (this number exceeds the number of illegal immigrants on a per-country basis).
	www.visa2003.com /world-immigration/us-history.htm (1845 words)

	Immigration Policies
		The act mandated that 1/6 of 1% of the number of that national origin in the U.S. in 1920 was alowed legal admittance.Allowed for a majority of the immigrants to remain Caucasian and from the Western Hemisphere
		Increased immigration by authorizing adjustments for Cubans and Haitians who had entered the U.S. without inspection prior to January 1982, increasing the number of immigrants admitted from dependent areas, and creating a small additional number for aliens from countries adversely affected by 1965 law.
		Ratio of employment-based immigrants to family-sponsored immigration increased.
	www.msu.edu /~singhsa4/policies.html (470 words)

	Durrani Law Firm, Ltd. :: Client Resources - Immigration Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aliens born in countries from which immigration was adversely affected by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (Public Law 89-236) were eligible for the special nonpreference visas.
		Orphan - The Immigration and Nationality Act provides a definition of an orphan for the purposes of immigration to the United States.
		People with no nationality must generally be outside their country of last habitual residence to qualify as a refugee.
	www.durrani.com /newsite/client_res/client_res_gloss3.asp (2441 words)

	Immigration Glossary
		Asylee - An alien in the United States or at a port of entry who is found to be unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality, or to seek the protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution.
		For persons with no nationality, the country of nationality is considered to be the country in which the alien last habitually resided.
		Under a provision of the Immigration Act of 1990, the Attorney General may designate nationals of a foreign state to be eligible for TPS with a finding that conditions in that country pose a danger to personal safety due to ongoing armed conflict or an environmental disaster.
	www.comoinmigrarausa.com /?glossary (7379 words)

	Federation for American Immigration Reform: Synopses of Modern Immigration Laws
		The 1965 amendments to the INA were passed in the shadow of the civil rights movement, when an admission system based on national origins seemed out of step with national values.
		The 1965 Act took one of the elements of the previous system, the admission of nuclear family members, and made it the centerpiece of a new system whose goal was the reunification of extended family members.
		One obvious change made by the 1990 Act was the addition of a “visa lottery.” Because of the dynamics of family reunification, a few developing countries tend to squeeze most other countries out of the immigration flow.
	www.fairus.org /site/PageServer?pagename=research_research1e1d (615 words)

	Alien Nation Review: Peculiar racial ideas mar immigration book
		In Canada, immigration is usually portrayed as a left-right issue, with the left in favor and the right against.
		Alien Nation is full of informative data like this, much of it as relevant to Canadians as to Americans because, on a per capita basis, we have twice as much immigration as the Americans do and our immigration program, like theirs, is now based chiefly on family relationships rather than skills.
		Until the Immigration and Nationality Act amendments of 1965, the U.S. favored whites over non-whites in its immigration policy.
	www.vdare.com /pb/anation_review_35.htm (1046 words)

	Terra - Immigration
		Spouse, unmarried dependent child under 21 years of age, unmarried dependent child under 25 years of age who is in full-time attendance at a postsecondary educational institution, or unmarried child who is physically or mentally disabled.
		Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to spouses of citizens at or during marriage or to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
		A transition towards the permanent diversity program in fiscal year 1995, allocating 40,000 visas annually during the period 1992-94 to nationals of certain countries identified as having been "adversely affected" by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (P.L. At least 40 percent of the visas were reserved for natives of Ireland.
	www.terra.com /immigration/glossary/glossary_d.htm (311 words)

	\| Book Review \| Law and History Review, 17.2 \| The History Cooperative
		Schuck proclaims that immigration "has served America well," but in the same paragraph hints at a shadow of doubt, arguing that "policy should assure that a larger share of the immigration flow consists of individuals who are most likely to succeed in the American economy of the twenty-first century" (358).
		Similarly, in chapter 11, "The New Immigration and Old Civil Rights," one of the most intriguing chapters in the book, Schuck observes that the growth of Latin and Asian-American communities may harm African-Americans and disrupt the liberal democratic coalition.
		Schuck notes that "the fact that some of these immigration stories (or myths, if you prefer) are false is less relevant politically than the fact that they tend to undermine the group claims and status of fls" (258).
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/18.1/br_13.html (1099 words)

	Glossary&Acronyms
		Immigration from the Western Hemisphere was held to 120,000, without a per-country limit until January 1, 1977.
		Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 - Public Law 99-639 (Act of 11/10/86), which was passed in order to deter immigration-related marriage fraud.
		Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 - Public Law 99-603 (Act of 11/6/86), which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States.
	www.ailc.com /glossary2.htm (1213 words)

	Major Immigration Legislation: A Legacy of Unintended Consequences
		After four decades of high immigration beginning in 1880, a period known as the Great Wave, Congress established the first numerical limits on immigration and created a system of quotas for immigrants based on national origins.
		Based on the flawed assumption that the "back door" of illegal immigration had been shut through the 1986 act, Congress proceeded to further open the "front door" of legal immigration by tripling the numerical limits for employment-based immigration and substantially easing limits on family-based immigration.
		Along with the welfare reform act of the same year, this immigration legislation greatly scaled back the eligibility of legal immigrants for an array of federal benefits, including food stamps and welfare payments.
	www.sci.sdsu.edu /salton/MajorImmigrationLegislatio.html (448 words)

	Glossary & Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mandated by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965, the ceiling on immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere was set at 170,000, with a per-country limit of 20,000.
		Immigration and Nationality Act - The Act (INA), which, along with other immigration laws, treaties, and conventions of the United States, relates to the immigration, temporary admission, naturalization, and removal of aliens.
		If the aliens cannot show that the marriage through which the status was obtained was and is a valid one, their conditional immigrant status may be terminated and they may become deportable.
	uscis.gov /graphics/glossary2.htm (1141 words)

	Prentice Hall Documents Library: Immigration Act (1965) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of October 3, 1965 (79 Statutes-at-Large 911)
		Abolished the national origins quota system (see the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952), eliminating national origin, race, or ancestry as a basis for immigration to the United States.
		Introduced a prerequisite for the issuance of a visa of an affirmative finding by the Secretary of Labor that an alien seeking to enter as a worker will not replace a worker in the United States nor adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed individuals in the United States.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/medialib/docs/immi1965.htm (246 words)

	Immigration
		The immigration debate: studies on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration (1998) at http://books.nap.edu/books/0309059984/html/.
		Washington: U.S. The commission was created by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1976 (P.L. 95-412) and chaired by Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then president of the university of Notre Dame.
		Washington, D.C.: U.S. The commission was created by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-236) and charged with recommending whether numerical limitations should be imposed upon immigration to the United States from nations of the Western Hemisphere.
	www.sandiego.edu /lrc/broaderborders/imgovdocs.html (759 words)

	Brimelow
		Brimelow claims that current immigration trends will ruin America's patriotism and distort its ethnic and cultural makeup creating an "alien nation." Immigrants bring with them the values and beliefs of their home country, he says, and are unlikely to assimilate into American culture.
		He says that the immigration from Europe after the Civil War is partially to blame for the slowed economic integration of freed slaves.
		Brimelow, through ALIEN NATION, tries to make an argument against immigration based on economics and not racist viewpoints; but all in all his position is full of exaggerations and racially motivated arguments that do not stand on solid ground.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /gmklass/pos334/archive/brimelow.htm (976 words)

	A Legacy of Diversity - Newsday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two years later, JFK's "A Nation of Immigrants" idea became the "The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965," pushed through Congress with little fanfare as a tribute to the fallen president by his brothers, Edward and Robert Kennedy.
		Under the new statute, immigration status was decided without regard for race, ethnicity or national origin, and with an emphasis on family reunification.
		The 1965 law's biggest impact was that the gatekeepers to America were now officially color-blind, allowing entry on a first-come, first-served basis.
	www.newsday.com /features/ny-p2cover3549530nov20,0,297656.story?coll=ny-features-headlines (1196 words)

	The Border \| 1965 The Immigration and Naturalization Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In October of 1965, amendments to the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) repealed the national origins quota system.
		In lieu of these considerations of nationality and ethnicity, the 1965 amendments established a system based on reunification of families and needed skills.
		The amendments represent one of the most important revisions of immigration policy in the United States since the First Quota Act of 1921.
	www.pbs.org /kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/23.html (142 words)

	Immigration dictionary: Deportation, Derivative Citizenship, Diversity
		An alien in and admitted to the United States subject to any grounds of removal specified in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
		Geographic areas into which the United States and its territories are divided for the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s field operations or one of three overseas offices located in Rome, Bangkok, and Mexico City.
		A category of immigrants replacing the earlier categories for nationals of underrepresented countries and countries adversely affected by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965.
	www.visa2003.com /ins-uscis/d.htm (297 words)

	Birth Certificate Online - For Your Needs
		It was created by congressional enactment in 1891 as an agency of the department of the treasury; it was transferred to the department of justice in 1940.
		The act split the ins into two agencies within the newly created department of homeland security: the bureau of border security, which patrols u.
		Consular officers have to keep abreast of both legislative changes and new interpretations of the law to see that no injustice is done and that the spirit and letter of existing laws and regulations are upheld.
	www.texastower.net /BirthCertificateOnlineo.html (249 words)

	Immigration
		Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 1996 (P.L. 110 Stat.
		Repealed national origins quota system; immigration based instead on family reunification and needed skills.
		For a discussion of Congressional action on immigration reform, 1965-1996, see Gimpel and Edwards, The Congressional politics of immigration reform (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999).
	www.sandiego.edu /lrc/broaderborders/imlawreg.html (228 words)

	Diversity Visa Lottery - United States Green Card Lottery Assisted Registration Services
		The Diversity Visa Lottery for the "winning" of green cards was a program by which a category of immigrants from underrepresented countries and those adversely affected by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-236) were to receive a special immigration benefit.
		It is administered on an annual basis by the United States Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203© of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
		Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub.
	www.usharbor.com /contact.htm (276 words)

	Rodriguez Law Firm: Texas Lawyers, Immigration Law, Green Card, Non-immigrant, Refugee
		Beginning in October 1994, section 245(i) of the INA allowed illegal residents who were eligible for immigrant status to remain in the United States and adjust to permanent resident status by applying at the INS office and paying an additional fee.
		Section 245(i) is no longer available unless the alien is the beneficiary of a petition under section 204 of the Act or of an application for a labor certification under section 212(a)(5)(A), filed before January 15, 1998.
		Prior to October 1994, most illegal residents were required to leave the United States and acquire a visa abroad from the Department of State as they are again now.
	www.debrarodriguez.com /green.html (187 words)

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