An Act to Encourage Immigration (Pub. L. 38–246, H.R. 411, 13 Stat. 385, enacted July 4, 1864) was a federal law passed by the 38th United States Congress...

(2001-11-01). "Do Amnesty Programs Encourage Illegal Immigration? Evidence from the Immigration Reform and Control Act (Irca)". SSRN. Rochester, NY. doi:10...

regulations on immigration, such as the Immigration Act of 1891. Prior to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1882, the United States Congress had passed...

History of immigration to the United States History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States Illegal immigration to the United...

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers...

ship's captain. In the late 1800s, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...

Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve...

Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant...

other immigration-related bills, including the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611) and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007...

health in Australia Immigration to New Zealand Mental health and immigration detention Multiculturalism in Australia Post war immigration to Australia Visa...

domestic immigration law and policy went through significant changes, most notably with the Immigration Act, 1976, and the current Immigration and Refugee...

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers and produces analyses to further...

defendants to immigration hearings. On June 17, 2025, Lander was arrested and handcuffed by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at an immigration...

The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 was an act of the Parliament of Canada that placed a head tax of $50 (equivalent to $1,749 in 2023) on all Chinese immigrants...

Immigration reduction refers to a government and social policy in the United States that advocates a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into...

of the Head Tax in 1944, the Immigration Act 1919 permitted the Minister of Immigration to arbitrarily reject immigration applications where he or she...

and voting behavior. Due to its history the United States can be described as an immigration country. American immigration history can be viewed in four...

to prohibit contract labor. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in the 1880s to end Chinese immigration. 1864 Immigration Act — “An act to encourage...

Canadian legal system, both federal and provincial, as it relates to immigration: An Act to Regulate the Carrying of Passengers in Merchant Vessels (1828)...

to establish the colonial settlement of Charles Town. In 1671, he became surveyor general. He appears in the earliest record of Irish immigration to the...

the guest worker immigration encouraged in other advanced industrial economies such as Germany, Japan was for the greater part able to rely on internal...

The Immigration Act, 1869 (also written as the Immigration Act of 1869; assented 22 June 1869) was the first immigration act passed by the Government of...

The immigration policy Joe Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration. During his first...

regulates immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States. The United States Congress has authority over immigration policy in the...

immigrate to a country without having official permission to do so. Opposition to immigration ranges from calls for various immigration reforms, to proposals...

policies on US illegal immigration, Texas governor Greg Abbott and Arizona governor Doug Ducey have sent buses of refuge seekers to northern United States...

Illegal immigration, or unauthorized immigration, occurs when foreign nationals, known as aliens, violate US immigration laws by entering the United States...

Dominion Lands Act (French: Loi des terres fédérales) was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of the Canadian Prairies and to help prevent...

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866...

1957, domestic immigration law and policy went through major changes, most notably with the Immigration Act 1959/63. Malaysian immigration policies are...