Immigration into the province was eased tremendously by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line in 1880s.

These sanctions included the imposition of Section 212 ( f ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse entry into the United States of senior government officials and others who formulated, implemented, or benefited from policies impeding Nigeria's transition to democracy ; suspension of all military assistance ; and a ban on the sale and repair of military goods and refinery services to Nigeria.

* May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which was later amended in 1965 to include policy for refugees on a case by case basis, was the first Act that the consolidated U. S. immigration policy into one body of text.

In doing so, it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In Mexico, as Jim Chaparro — head of the anti-smuggling office at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service — puts it, the once small and informal smuggling business has evolved into a powerful web of " literally hundreds of syndicates, some at a low level and some at the kingpin level ".

In the years after the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, allowing many more immigrants from Asia into the country, the population of Chinatown exploded.

World War I, together with the restrictive Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924, effectively put an abrupt end to the large flow of Italian immigrants into the country.

An early piece of legislation of the Barton government was the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, which put the White Australia policy into law.

* Immigration Act 1986 – liberalised immigration, particularly skilled migration, into NZ.

After 1890, the Federal government, rather than the individual states, regulated immigration into the United States, and the Immigration Act of 1891 established a Commissioner of Immigration in the Treasury Department.

Even so, the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, prevented the Poys ' immediate entry into the country until the Department of External Affairs intervened and cited an unfilled quota in the prisoner of war exchange programme with the Japanese Imperial Forces that would permit the Poy family free passage into Canada.

According to a press release posted on the Halliburton website, " The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) Detention and Removal Operations ( DRO ) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U. S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.

However, during the January 2004 visit to Eastern Europe by Australian Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Philip Ruddock, Australian-Russian relationships were strengthened while both nations committed to a timetable for reductions in Russian human trafficking into Australia.

The Immigration Act of 1924 or sometimes referred to as the Oriental Exclusion Act was part of a measured system excluding Korean immigrants into the US.

In 1952 with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, opportunities were more open to Asian Americans, enabling Korean Americans to move out of enclaves into middle-class neighborhoods.

Other names used by Fleming included a colleague at The Sunday Times, Robert Harling, who was transformed into Commissioner of Police Harling, whilst an ex-colleague from his stock broking days, Hugo Pitman, became Chief of Immigration Pitman and Fleming's golfing friend, Bunny Roddick, became Deputy Governor Roddick.

Garda Síochána ( GNIB ) has a responsibility to provide an Immigration service to all arriving passengers into the airport.

* Immigration, often sponsored by local authorities, also brought foreign family names into the German speaking regions.

* July 1-The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and " special circumstances "

* The federal Immigration Act is amended to prohibit homosexuals entry into Canada.

The term " right of abode " was first introduced into British law under the Immigration Act 1971 as it applied specifically applied to the United Kingdom, while British dependent territories were governed under a similar concept of belonger status.

Despite the reports of Nazi atrocities growing and the desperation of Jews needing a safe haven the British kept the doors of Palestine closed to Jewish Immigration.

Immigration: Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate was to be limited to 75, 000 over the next five years, after which it would depend on Arab consent :' His Majesty's Government do not find anything in the Mandate or in subsequent Statements of Policy to support the view that the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine cannot be effected unless immigration is allowed to continue indefinitely.

The Great revolt 1936-1939 was an uprising by Palestinian Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine in protest against mass Jewish Immigration.

* D. Ofer, The Rescue of European Jewry and Illegal Immigration to Palestine in 1940.

* 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

In 1907 – 10, he worked for New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an interpreter for the U. S. Bureau of Immigration at the Ellis Island immigrant station.

As Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), Holt was responsible for the relaxation of the White Australia policy and as Treasurer under Menzies he initiated major fiscal reforms including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australia and launched and guided the process to convert Australia to decimal currency.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

Immigration increased even further from 1962 – 1972 when economic growth in Europe occurred, which led to a greater demand for low-skilled labour.

* 2008 – U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

* August 3 – The U. S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.

But the 1934 Tydings – McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, reclassified Filipinos as aliens, and set a quota of 50 immigrants per year, and otherwise applying the Immigration Act of 1924 to them.

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act ( better known as the McCarran – Walter Act ), lifted racial restrictions, but kept the quotas in place.

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Following the 2009 coup d ' état, former Battalion 3 – 16 member Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía became Director-General of Immigration and Billy Joya was de facto President Roberto Micheletti's security advisor.

The townsite was platted in 1904 by L. R. Kershaw, who was an attorney and was also an Immigration Agent for the Frisco ( St. Louis – San Francisco Railway ) Railroad.

* William Williams ( 1862 – 1947 ), Commissioner of Immigration, 1902 – 1913, Ellis Island

As Minister of Immigration, he was well known for his hostility to Chinese immigration – the so-called " Yellow Peril " was an important part of his populist rhetoric, and he compared Chinese people to monkeys.

Such clauses have often proved highly controversial – for instance, that in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which prompted the aforementioned report, and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.

* America – Presidents, Women's History, African American History, Native American History, American Expansion, Immigration, War

Arthur Augustus Calwell ( 28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973 ) Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1940 to 1972, Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.

* Masuda, Hajimu, “ Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes and the Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations, 1905 – 1913 ,” Diplomatic History, 33 ( Jan. 2009 ), 1 – 37.

When the 1885 act failed to deter Chinese immigration, the Canadian government then passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1900, increasing the head tax to $ 100, and, upon that act failing, passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1904 increasing the head tax ( landing fee ) to $ 500, equivalent to $ 8000 in 2003 — when compared to the head tax — Right of Landing Fee and Right of Permanent Residence Fee — of $ 975 per person, paid by new immigrants in 1995 – 2005 decade, which then was reduced to $ 490 in 2006.