After decades of an open-door policy, the 1924 U.S. Immigration Act imposed quotas by nationality.
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Notices recommending deportation under the Immigration Act were served on Sorin and his co-defendant.
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Then she argued that little could be done until a review of the Immigration Act was completed.
Mr. LEOPOLD: Well, you know, the law that passed in 1996, which was called IRAIRA, the Illegal Immigration Act.
Second, the bracero program, a temporary annual guest worker permit for low skilled Mexican farm workers, was discontinued on the eve of the Immigration Act of 1965 due to labor union pressure.
Congress' 1996 immigration reform act expressly forbade local participation in immigration enforcement without federal authorization and supervision.
The bipartisan "Gang of 8" senators introduced an act recently, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, that takes a promising new approach.
Four years later it passed the Senate as part of the far more expansive Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, but died in conference.
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Instead, we should implement reforms like the Immigration Innovation Act, which would nearly double the number of H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers.
One example of such reform is the bipartisan Immigration Innovation Act introduced on January 29 by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.).
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Munley of the central Pennsylvania district has struck down a poorly conceived ordinance dubbed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which sought to punish landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.
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John thinks renewal and competition in any party orthodoxy is healthy for America, but Dean is clearly rooting for DeMint's success, even if it means the end of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act.
He was a key member of a bipartisan Senate group that put together the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would have beefed up border security and increased the number of Border Patrol agents, but also would have created a guest worker program.
In the U.K., it says, the overall impact of the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and the 1999 Immigration Bill "proved detrimental to refugees, " while, "cruel and dangerous methods of restraint, including the deliberate blocking of breathing passages, " were the subject of inquiries in Switzerland and Belgium following deaths by asphyxiation during forcible deportation.
The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Civil Rights Division enforces the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that individuals are not being discriminated against based on citizenship or immigration status and national origin with respect to hiring, firing, and recruitment or referral for a fee.
That has applied to the Defense of Marriage Act, immigration laws, and to the No Child Left Behind Act regarding education policy.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants more people to use section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The nation has changed dramatically since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and that legislation has not held up well.
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Registrars are encouraged to report their suspicions of a suspect marriage or civil partnership under Section 24 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
More than 1 million farmworkers applied for legalization under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Pete Wilson helped push the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants.
President Obama has simply refused to uphold federal laws with which he disagrees, including the Defense of Marriage Act and immigration statutes.
President Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that affected mostly Latino immigrants living in the United States since 1982.
Leaving aside the mistaken idea that immigration is purely an act of generosity (start with this excellent Economist article for example), is it actually true that we do better than anyone else?
On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.
The Migration Act allows the immigration minister to "declare" or identify a third country to which asylum seekers can be sent.
In fact, things were going smoothly for Rubio until Arizonans passed a law intended to deputize state and local police officers to act as surrogate immigration agents.
But the term sanctuary doesn't apply in those cities where there's been no formal declaration but police, on their own initiative, simply refuse to act as surrogate immigration officers.
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But with Congress focused today on the Dubai ports deal, ethics and immigration reforms and finishing the Patriot Act, few other lawmakers seemed to know enough about the deal with India to pass judgment on it.
Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from the United States.
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