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	List of United States immigration legislation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Immigration Act of 1924 aimed at freezing the current ethnic distribution in response to rising immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia.
		The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant.
		1990 - Immigration Act of 1990 PL 101-649
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_Immigration_Acts (471 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies
		The poll found that 60 percent of the public regards the present level of immigration to be a "critical threat to the vital interests of the United States," compared to only 14 percent of the nation’s leadership — a 46 percentage point gap.
		Immigration is simply not on the radar of the elite, whereas the public seems to be quite concerned about the issue.
		Immigration appears to be on the public mind, though not its highest concern.
	www.cis.org /articles/2002/back1402.html (3606 words)

	Immigration Resource Page - imigration
		Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently.
		Immigration illegal immigation is often forced on an unwilling population by politicians who wish polish immagration to gain politcal advantage.
		Some environmentalists concerned with overpopulation favor limiting immigration as a means of isolating the effects of human population growth, while others argue that overpopulation and environmental degredation illegal immagration in recent times are global immagration in the 1800's canadian imigration problems that should be addressed by other methods.
	www.governpub.com /gt/Immigration.html (619 words)

	INS History, Genealogy, and Education - This Month in Immigration History: December 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		United States and China signed a treaty permitting the U.S. to limit "but not absolutely prohibit" certain Chinese from immigrating to America.
		The 1882 act was the first of four "Chinese Exclusion Laws" which suspended the inflow of Chinese laborers, including their wives, who were also considered as labor, for ten years from 1882 through 1892.
		Immigration Act of 1917 the United States further prohibited immigration of laborers from almost all Asian countries, referred to in the law as the Asiatic "barred zone."
	uscis.gov /graphics/aboutus/History/dec43.htm (1175 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During the Cold War, the United States was a major player in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and was considered one of Two superpowers along with the Soviet Union; with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nation emerged as the world's leading economic and military power.
		The United States is a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the Most prestigious and advanced in the world.
		Some Sports that originated or evolved in the United States, particularly baseball, basketball and American football, have achieved a worldwide audience; the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League, is one of the highest watched broadcasts in the world, with viewership far outnumbering the total American population.
	united-states.iqnaut.net (5101 words)

	US Lawyer Locator - Find or locate a Attorney or Lawyer - Immigration - Immigration Link Resources
		Immigration means "in-migration" into a country, and is the reverse of emigration, or "out-migration." The long term and/or permanent movement of human population in general, whether into, out of, or within countries (or before the existence of recognised countries) is regarded as migration.
		Many other countries permit immigration in particular circumstances, e.g., to fill jobs where a skill is not available locally, for wealthy investors or business leaders, in cases of marriage, multiple citizenship or asylum, or under multilateral agreements such as within the European Union or between New Zealand and Australia.
		Some environmentalists concerned with overpopulation favor limiting immigration as a means of isolating human population growth, while others argue that overpopulation and environmental degredation are global problems that should be addressed by other methods.
	www.uslawyerlocator.com /printer_usllimmigrationresources.shtml (768 words)

	Chinese Exclusion Act (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act, allowing a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year, although large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965.
		The act was passed in response to the large number of Chinese who had immigrated to the Western United States as a result of unsettled conditions in China and the availability of jobs working on railroads.
		It was the first immigration law passed in the United States targeted at a specific ethnic group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States) (959 words)

	Locations Nationwide - Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States
		Immigration- related decisions made by these Federal officials were sometimes appealed to Federal courts, which also heard criminal cases involving Chinese alleged to be living in the United States illegally.
		Registers list the name and date of arrival, name of the ship, disposition of the case, legal status of immigrant (for example, merchant, student, minor child of citizen), and place of residence in the U.S. These volumes can be used to identify case numbers.
		These volumes list arriving Chinese and sometimes include the name of the business with which they were affiliated; the name of the ship on which they arrived; the last place of residence in the United States, if returning from abroad; and certificate of identity number.
	www.archives.gov /locations/finding-aids/chinese-immigration.html (7942 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But arrests in the United States as well as immigration charges are traditionally a matter of public record, which precludes a reasonable privacy interest on the part of detainees.
		United States noted, the identity of the detainees is essential to public assessment of the government's conduct of its September 11 investigation.
		The immigration judge asked an FBI agent who was attending the proceeding whether the detainee had received the agency's "clearance." When the agent responded yes, the immigration judge opened the hearing to the public.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/us911/USA0802-02.htm (9888 words)

	United States Secretary of State - dKosopedia
		The United States Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the head of the United States Department of State and the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser.
		Under the United States Constitution, the President of the United States determines U.S. foreign policy.
		These include the custody of the Great Seal of the United States, the preparation of certain presidential proclamations, the publication of treaties and international acts as well as the official record of the foreign relations of the United States, and the custody of certain original treaties and international agreements.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State (465 words)

	Bad acts and their impacts on admission
		Admission is the lawful entry of an alien into the United States after inspection and authorization by an immigration officer.
		To be excludable for admission, an act must constitute a crime under the laws where it occurs.
		Basically, any act, which by itself is morally reprehensible and intrinsically wrong or evil by its nature, will render such an act a crime of moral turpitude even without statutory prohibition.
	www.hooyou.com /badacts/onadmission.html (1128 words)

	Immigration
		Angel Island Immigration--Similar to New York Harbor's Ellis Island, Angel Island was the first stop into the United States for Asian immigrants arriving in San Francisco Bay.
		Immigration In American Memory--Use the menu bar to the left to view each nationality.
		Immigration Resources--Links to various immigration topics such as the symbols of immigration, immigration history, immigration laws, famous immigrants, where immigrates came from, and how to find information of one's own immigration background.
	www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu /lrc/Immigration.htm (1461 words)

	fto-groups
		Redesignation after two years is a positive act and represents a determination by the Secretary of State that the organization has continued to engage in terrorist activity and still meets the criteria specified in law.
		It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide funds or other material support to a designated FTO.
		The State Department, working closely with the Justice and Treasury Departments and the intelligence community, prepares a detailed "administrative record" which documents the terrorist activity of the designated FTO.
	www.unitedstatesaction.com /fto-groups.htm (925 words)

	North Korea Deserves to Remain on U.S. List of Sponsors of Terrorism
		Before the September 11 attacks, the United States seemed to be moving toward removing North Korea from its list of terrorist nations, particularly during the latter years of the Clinton Administration.
		Pyongyang believes that the United States is the source of international terrorism--an apparent criticism of U.S. military involvement in the Persian Gulf War and Kosovo.
		Seven countries on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist states are signatories of the 12 U.N. conventions or treaties against international terrorism.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/BG1503.cfm (2459 words)

	Narco News: Posada Carriles May Soon Hit the Streets
		The Patriot Act authorizes the detention of someone who has not been deported, if he is a danger to the national security of the country or has been involved in terrorist acts.
		Somewhere in a drawer in the Department of State are the pleadings filed by Venezuela, asking for his preventive detention as well as his extradition.
		As if this weren’t enough, two of his closest collaborators who presumably helped him enter the United States illegally, Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, are now in jail in South Florida charged with illegal possession of a war chest loaded with weapons and false documents.
	www.narconews.com /Issue40/article1541.html (920 words)

	Immigration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chronology of Immigration Acts: A timeline of important laws and events in U.S. immigration.
		Polish Immigration: A good discussion of Polish immigrants and their life in the U.S. Irish Immigration: An interesting site dedicated to the Dunbrody, a ship which carried many Irish immigrants.
		Arab Immigration: A brief overview of Arab immigration to the United States.
	www.davison.k12.mi.us /dms/library/cybrary/immigration/immigration.htm (944 words)

	UnitedStatesVisas.gov Homepage
		Arriving in the U.S. Acts of Congress
		Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
		Bureau of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
	www.unitedstatesvisas.gov /visapolicy/faq_text.html (64 words)

	portland imc - united states
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		From the open publishing newswire: Like many of you, I was upset and saddened by the lack of indictment for the officers who beat and killed Jim Chasse.
		The liberators dedicated this action to the SHAC 7 defendants, who were sentenced this week to years in prison for the crime of talking.
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