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

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

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 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 and industrialization caused a major increase in New York City's population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Confederado descendants ' community has also contributed to an Immigration Museum at Santa Bárbara d ' Oeste to present the history of immigration to Brazil.

See Immigration to Argentina, Immigration to Chile or Immigration to Brazil.

Posted by JSF ( a summary of Jeffrey Lesser's article: " The Immigration and Integration of Polish Jews in Brazil ")

* History of Italian Immigration to Brazil

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

Responsibility for the Faget appointment rests with Gen. J. M. Swing, an Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service.

Fla., and Leonard Gilman, a former college boxer and veteran of the U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol.

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

* Bill Ong Hing, Anthony D. Romero, Defining America Through Immigration Policy ( Temple University Press, 2004 ), 17-19

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

Appointed by Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people a year to about 550, 000.

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

Immigration and customs checks are conducted at the platform exit tunnel for passengers leaving trains here.

Hoover learned of the trip and negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke Chaplin's re-entry permit.

Immigration officials have been known to ask for bribes to ' expedite ' processing the forms, or to offer to fill out the customs forms prior to demanding a ' fee ' for doing so.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

Immigration continued to North and South America.

In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in lower Manhattan, just across the bay.

By the time it closed in 1954, twelve million immigrants had been processed by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly restricted immigration and allowed processing at overseas embassies, the only immigrants to pass through the station were displaced persons or war refugees.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

To support the activities of the United States Bureau of Immigration, the United States Public Health Service operated an extensive medical service at the immigrant station, called U. S. Marine Hospital Number 43, more widely known as the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.