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.

The AEL resurfaced in the early 1920s, this time claiming a membership of 40, 000 in the province in the period leading up to the passage of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which ended virtually all Chinese immigration to Canada.

The Minister of Labour and Immigration of the Canadian province of Manitoba is a member of the Executive Council of Manitoba, which is informally known as the Cabinet.

The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration is responsible for citizenship and immigration issues in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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.

Cameron was appointed to John Bracken's cabinet on August 8, 1922 as Minister of Agriculture and Immigration, and as the cabinet representative of farming interests in the western part of the province.

* 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.

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.

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.

The station's new Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum, was opened in 1900.

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

Immigration from Spain and intermarriage with Spaniards from the surrounding Spanish towns was a constant feature of Gibraltar's history until the then Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, closed the border with Gibraltar in 1969, cutting off many Gibraltarians from their relatives on the Spanish side of the frontier.

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 ".

Mihdhar was placed on a CIA watchlist on August 21, 2001, and a note was sent on August 23 to the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) suggesting that Mihdhar and Hazmi be added to their watchlists.

Jean Asselborn ( LSAP ) was appointed as the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.

The law concerned was Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, brought in by the Labour Party government of 2005-2010.

Immigration was a divisive and provocative issue during the late 1960s and on 23 May 1966 Jenkins delivered a speech on race relations, which is widely considered to be one of his best.

The DOJ acted under the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had authorized a registration system but was allowed to lapse in the 1980's because of budget concerns.

In his review, psychologist Franz Samelson wrote that Gould was wrong in asserting that the psychometric results of the intelligence tests administered to soldier-recruits by the U. S. Army contributed to the legislation of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.

Immigration policy was liberalised, allowing an influx of immigrants from Asia.

Immigration continued until, in the early 13th century, it was the most populous city in the Giudicato of Torres, and its last capital.

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.

The convention was influential in the following administrative Law decision of Baker v. Canada ( Minister of Citizenship and Immigration ).

In 1994, the Court of Appeal dismissed the suggestion that the Minister for Immigration and his department were at liberty to ignore the convention, arguing that this would imply that the country's adherence was ' at least partly window-dressing '.

He was taken to the Immigration Detention House on Angel Island, where he was detained for two months, despite having his California birth certificate.