Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country. Strictly...
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The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–139...
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immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are...
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states, either controlled (legal immigration) or uncontrolled and in violation of immigration laws (illegal immigration). Migration can be voluntary or...
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Canadian immigration and refugee law concerns the area of law related to the admission of foreign nationals into Canada, their rights and responsibilities...
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE /aɪs/) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission...
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a landmark federal law passed...
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captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...
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of the law, the number of applications for residency increased but the Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked instructed the Population, Immigration and Border...
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Arizona SB 1070 (redirect from Arizona Immigration Law)
immigration law in the United States when passed. It has received international attention and has spurred considerable controversy. U.S. federal law requires...
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limited regulation of immigration and naturalization at a national level. Under a mostly prevailing "open border" policy, immigration was generally welcomed...
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governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States. It came into effect on June 27, 1952. The legislation consolidated various immigration laws into...
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President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986. The Immigration Reform and Control Act altered U.S. immigration law by making it illegal to knowingly hire illegal...
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& Immigration and Immigration Enforcement and Law Enforcement. Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 Asylum and Immigration Tribunal...
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regulates immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States. The United States Congress has authority over immigration policy in the...
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Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country...
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Foreign nationals (aliens) can violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully or lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration...
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presence in a nation is in violation of that nation's immigration laws. An "alien" in English law denoted any person born outside of the monarch's dominions...
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forced immigration of up to 670,000 Korean and Chinese laborers during the Second World War. After 1945, unlike the guest worker immigration encouraged...
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States). UK immigration enforcement Non-visa travel restrictions Fact Sheet 79 - The Character Requirement, Australia Department of Immigration and Citizenship...
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Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allows the U.S. President to disallow entry of aliens deemed "detrimental to the interests...
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Follow-up legislation on immigration matters was contained in the Nationality Law of 1952. Originally, the rights under the Law of Return applied only to...
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field in which critical immigration scholars conceptualize the current immigration law enforcement system. Increased immigration to the United States has...
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Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political ideology that seeks to restrict the incoming of people from one area to another...
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fiancés. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 has been amended many times, but still remains the basic and central body of immigration law. Immigrants...
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preventing abuse, tracking immigration offenders and increasing compliance with immigration law. Its officers are warranted as immigration officers, holding various...
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Reforming the immigration policy of the United States is a subject of political discourse and contention. Immigration has played an essential part in...
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Immigrants' rights advocates believe the all current immigration policies "have been undermined by the Immigration agency's continued overreliance on penal incarceration...
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fall of immigration reform, Washington Post (June 26, 2014). Alexander Bolton (May 24, 2013). "Gang of Eight's strategy for winning immigration floor fight:...
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States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law made exceptions...
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