Immigration Problem In The U.S.

Immigration Problem in the U.S.

The first move stopping immigration decided by Congress was a

law in 1862 restricting American vessels to transport Chinese

immigrants to the U.S. The Alien Contract Labor Laws of 1885, 1887,

1888, and 1891 restricted the immigration to the U.S. of people

entering the country to work under contracts made before their

arrival. Alien skilled laborers, under these laws, were allowed to

enter the U.S. to work in new industries. By this time anti-immigrant

felling rose with the flood of immigrants and in this period the

anti-Catholic, anti-foreign political party the Know-Nothings, was

already born.

After World War I a marked increase in racism and the growth

of isolationist sentiment in the U.S. led to demands for further tight

legislation. In 1921 a congressional act provided for a quota system

for immigrants, which the number of aliens of any nationality admitted

to the U.S. in a year could not exceed 3 percent of the number of

foreign-born residents of that nationality living in the U.S. in 1910.

This law applied to nations of Europe, the Middle East, Africa,

Australia, New Zealand, Asian Russia, and certain islands in the

Atlantic and Pacific. In the 1980s concern about the surge of illegal

aliens into the U.S. has led Congress to pass legislation aimed at

cutting illegal immigration. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of

1986 allows most illegal aliens who have resided in the U....

Immigration Problem In The U.S.

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