Immigration Policies Of America

Immigration Policies of America

The United States Immigration policy had many changes. Acts were passed to limit immigration. Also to reduce the number of people.

In May 6, 1882 the government passed the CHAR 126 to halt immigration from China to the United States. The act made it so that after 90 days no Chinese laborer could come to America for ten years. The government said afterwards that the ''Chinese laborers disturbed the good order of certain localities.'' But in 1865 this is not the way people thought of Chinese laborers. In 1865 Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railroad said that the Chinese laborers worked better than the white laborers. He also said that that without them the railroad wouldn't have been completed in time. He mentions this in document one. Then in 1884 agents went to Italy from America to look for workers for the iron mines in Missouri. The agents told the workers that they could bring their families two years later. This all takes place two years after the CHAR 126 was passed. This is mentioned in document three.

In 1880 though the United States welcomed immigrants. A cartoon titled Welcome to All shows a sign that says that there would be ''no oppressive taxes, no expensive kings, and no compulsory military service''. The document also showed how people lined up to get into boat that called itself the U.S. Ark of Refugees. The U.S. immigration policy has also enacted many quota acts. The quota acts were passed to lower the number of people that immigrated to the United States. There were three quota acts. Each quota act sharply decreased the number of immigrants. The Emergency Quota Act of 1924 lowered the number of immigrants from 158,367 to 21,847. These numbers are from document five. But in 1965 the basis for accepting immigrants into the United