America's Immigration Restriction Policy
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- How Present Congress Is Dealing With Proposals to Change Immigration Law. Johnson, Albert // Congressional Digest;May28, Vol. 7 Issue 5, p152
Focuses on proposals to change the immigration law in the United States. Method of computing the annual immigration quotas; Operations of the immigration laws American Indians born in Canada.
- THE PRESENT NATURALIZATION LAWS IN OPERATION. // Congressional Digest;Apr22, Vol. 1 Issue 7, p7
The article presents information on the method of naturalization law in operation in the U.S. as of April 1922. When an alien has received his certificate of arrival, he digs up his two witness and appears before the naturalization examiner in the district in which he lives. The naturalization...
- U. S. Commissioner General of Immigration Cites Needs For Legislative Remedies. Husband, W. W. // Congressional Digest;Jul/Aug23, Vol. 2 Issue 10/11, p301
Unless a radical change is to be made in the present U.S. immigration policy only a few comparatively simple amendments to existing laws are imperatively needed. The per centum limit law provides that the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted to the U.S. in any fiscal year...
- A GOOD BILL GESTURE. // America;4/3/1943, Vol. 68 Issue 26, p714
The article focuses on the Immigration Act of May 26, 1924. The Act prohibited admission to the U.S. the alien wives and children of Chinese citizens of the U.S. In June 13, 1930, the Bill was modified to admit the wives of Chinese citizens who were married before May 26, 1924. The author...
- AMERICANS OR ALIENS FIRST? Carroll, Raymond G. // Saturday Evening Post;4/11/1936, Vol. 208 Issue 41, p8
Argues on the increasing number of aliens in the U.S. Ration of American citizens to immigrants; Doubts on the integrity of the new immigration laws; Implication of the role of immigrants for the country's development.
- INS Board Upholds Ban on Gay Aliens. // Advocate;8/20/81, Issue 324, p8
Reports on the ruling of the U.S. Immigration and Natural Service's Board of Appeals that the agency has the right to exclude aliens under a law barring those 'afflicted with psychopathic personality.' Plans of the Gay Rights Advocates to bring the case to federal court; Possible detention of...
- Booted from Britain. Katz, Donald R. // New Republic;12/11/76, Vol. 175 Issue 24, p9
Focuses on the decision of Home Secretary Merlyn Rees to deport U.S. writers Phillip Agee and Mark Hosenball from Great Britain. Reluctance of Rees to explain why he had made an unprecedented decision to deport the writers; Section of the Immigration Act invoked by the Home Secretary in...
- Immigration Benefits: Twelfth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998: GAO-05-481R. Jones, Paul L. // GAO Reports;4/14/2005, p1
This report responds to certain requirements of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (HRIFA) of 1998 that authorized certain Haitian nationals and their dependents to apply to adjust their status to legal permanent residence. Section 902(k) of the act requires the Comptroller General to...
- DEPORTING PRIVATE RYAN: THE LESS THAN HONORABLE CONDITION OF THE NONCITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. Shagin, Craig R. // Widener Law Journal;2007, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p245
The author looks at the condition of the noncitizen in the U.S. armed forces. He cites requirements that should be met to comply with the first naturalization law of the country, including good moral character. He also mentions that one of the two types of special naturalization provisions for...
