In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990, which increased legal immigration to the United States by 40 %.

Immigration to the town increased considerably from 1816 until the 1870s, many of the newcomers being of German ( particularly Lutheran, and Mennonite ) extraction.

After the 1885 legislation failed to deter Chinese immigration to Canada, the government of Canada passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1900 to increase the tax to $ 100, and The Chinese Immigration Act, 1903 further increased the landing fees to $ 500, equivalent to $ 8000 in 2003.

After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the United States dramatically increased immigration from the Indian subcontinent.

Immigration of Germanic peoples increased.

Immigration increased industrialization and urbanization in Brazil.

Immigration increased throughout the latter half of the 19th century.

Immigration dried up, emigration to the goldfields of Western Australia and South Africa increased, and the high birthrate of the mid 19th century fell sharply and the city's growth continued, but very slowly.

In 1994 and until her death in 1996, Jordan chaired the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform, which advocated increased restriction of immigration, called for all U. S. residents to carry a national identity card and increased penalties on employers that violated U. S. immigration regulations.

Klees increased his profile during the campaign, and is currently the Progressive Conservative Critic for Education and Citizenship & Immigration in the Legislature as well as a member of the Justice Committee.

Immigration to the area increased several-fold due to the events surrounding the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Post-9 / 11 measures that have increased Muslims ' anti-American feelings: Immigration rule changes ( 231-33 ); interference with freedom of speech ( 233-34 ); hi-tech war briefings ( 234-35 ).

Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965.

These include the nativist United States American Party, often called the Know Nothing movement of the mid-19th century, which objected to increased Catholic immigration of predominantly Irish and German origin ; the Immigration Restriction League, which objected to greatly increased immigration from southern and eastern Europe during the late-19th and early 20th centuries, and the joint congressional Dillingham Commission, which studied this latter complaint and proposed numerical restrictions.

As of August 2011, Justice Heydon had increased his dissent rate to 47. 6 %, dissenting most notably in the Plaintiff M70 / 2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship ( the Malaysian asylum seeker swap case ) and Wainohu v New South Wales ( the NSW " bikie laws " case ).

The Immigration Act of 1965 increased the number of immigrants arriving from China, Vietnam, and the Theravada-practicing countries of southeast Asia.

The Immigration Act of 1990 () increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries, revised and established new nonimmigrant admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements.

Other calls for reform include increased transparency at the Board of Immigration Appeals ( BIA ) and more diversity of experience among Immigration Judges, the majority of whom previously held positions adversarial to immigrants.

The use of asylum has increased with the introduction of the process of ' fast track ', or the procedure by which the Immigration Service assess asylum claims which are capable of being decided quickly.

Immigration from Quebec to Alberta in the 1970s and again in the 21st century has also increased the francophone population of the province, especially in the cities of Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray.

Immigration continued even after Minorca was returned to Spain in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens )

Later, the Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration even further, excluding all classes of Chinese immigrants and extending restrictions to other Asian immigrant groups.

One innovative feature that has never been abrogated even during the days since 9 / 11, is that people entering the Park from either side may have the unique experience of strolling to the opposite park's boundary amid flowers, ponds, and works of art, without having to go through Immigration, thus truly making the Park a place of bi-national mingling.

They also claim that despite having the incarceration rate grow “ 10 times what it was prior to 1970 ”, “ it has not made this country any safer .” Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the budget for Customs and Border Patrol ( CBP ), and U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), have nearly doubled from 2003 to 2008, with CBP ’ s budget increasing from $ 5. 8 billion to $ 10. 1 billion and ICE from $ 3. 2 billion to $ 5 billion and even so there has been no significant decrease in immigrant population.

Immigration from mainland Scotland was essentially unknown even in the late 1950s and the population in 2001 was about an eighth of the total 160 years earlier.

While the internment programs of the Department of Justice's ( DOJ ) Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) affected Germans, Italians, Hungarians, and Japanese citizens who became " enemy aliens " under U. S. and international law, only those of Japanese ancestry were rounded up based solely on their racial background ( including orphans of all ages, even infants ).

Prior to this date, however, Mexican immigration was not restricted in the way it is today: “ a Mexican caught crossing the border illegally was told that if he wished to enter the US, he had to do so at a regular station and pay the fees .” Moreover, immigration from the Western Hemisphere had remained unrestricted until 1965 with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act, even though countries from Eastern Europe and Africa, for example, had limitations, severely restricting immigration from those countries.

It also passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act allowing deportation of immigrants for minor offenses, even those committed decades ago, and even if individuals had American spouses and / or children.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Jews, Italians and Slavs, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s.

Following the Government defeat, the Minister for Immigration Phil Woolas announced that a further review would be completed by the middle of July.

In 1907, the " Gentlemen's Agreement " between the governments of Japan and the U. S. ended immigration of Japanese workers ( i. e., men ), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U. S. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned the immigration of all but a token few Japanese, until the Immigration Act of 1965, there was very little further Japanese immigration.

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 established immigration restrictions specifically on these groups, and the Immigration Act of 1924 further tightened and codified these limits.

Immigration from North Africa, Asia, and other European countries led to further diversification of Italian music.

On the facts of the case, a special advocate was not permitted further contact with an applicant or his ordinary legal representatives except with permission of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ( SIAC ) after viewing confidential ( or " closed ") materials.

Obscenity law in England and Wales is currently governed by the various Obscene Publications Acts, and Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 but obscenity laws go back much further into the English common law.

Crystal Williams, Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association stated " Not only is accepting the documents all the law required to do, but there's a counterbalancing anti-discrimination law that keeps her from probing further or demanding different documents.

In December 2006 Kevin Rudd was elected leader and conducted a further reshuffle, expanding the portfolio to Immigration, Integration and Citizenship.

Sergio Marchi, then minister of Citizenship and Immigration, proposed a further step of creating a new " declaration " of citizenship, and commissioned ten Canadian writers to compose a pledge, with the explicit instruction to not refer to the monarch of Canada ; the suggested declaration decided on was: I am a citizen of Canada, and I make this commitment: to uphold our laws and freedoms ; to respect our people in their diversity ; to work for our common well-being ; and to safeguard and honour this ancient northern land.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s.

Egyptian immigration to the United States was further eased by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which allowed selective entry of certain professionals, especially scientists, from countries such as Egypt, which was up until then subjected to stringent emigration restrictions.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission subsequently ruled that Abu Qatada should be bailed on highly prescriptive terms for three months while the British government sought further reassurances from Jordan.