Immigration reform in 1965 opened the door to a huge influx of Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong, and Cantonese became the dominant tongue.

In May 2006, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, Mexicans and other nationalities, walked out of their jobs across the country in protest to support immigration reform ( many in hopes of a path to citizenship similar to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted citizenship to Mexican nationals living and working without documentation in the US ).

Choate serves on the board of directors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the largest and oldest immigration reform organization in the U. S. He is also on the Board of Directors for the American Innovators for Patent Reform.

Grijalva supports the DREAM Act and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act ( CIR ASAP ) and has recently come to greater prominence because of his role in promoting immigration reform.

As a result of his role in championing immigration reform in the United States House of Representatives, in 2009 Gutiérrez was appointed Chair of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force by Nancy Pelosi.

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He voted for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, and the Medicare Act of 1965, other pieces of President Johnson's sweeping program of domestic reform, and was one of the original cosponsors of the Equal Rights Amendment.

In May and June 2007, Bush strongly advocated Senate passage of another sweeping immigration reform proposal, the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

* Immigration reform

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.

She was instrumental in labor-Left reform organisations such as U. S Immigration Commission, The American Association for Labor Legislation and the Rand School of Social Science.

He was fired as chair of the Hispanic Advisory Commission to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for publicly criticizing President Carter ’ s immigration reform proposals.

The high number of illegal immigrants in Ghana is due to the lack of border control and security and the underfunded Ghana Immigration Service ( GIS ).

Immigration to the United States is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States.

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.

Contacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrange an interview to determine her marriage is legitimate, Brontë tracks down Georges, who is working as a waiter.

Harlingen is home to the U. S. Immigration Court, one of 52 such courts in the U. S. that adjudicate immigration cases in the United States.

The chief function of the Immigration Court is to conduct removal proceedings, which are administrative proceedings to determine the removability of non-citizens present within the United States.

The Chinese term 內地, meaning the inland but still translated mainland in English, is commonly applied by SAR governments to represent non-SAR areas of PRC, including Hainan and coastal regions of mainland China, such as " Constitutional and Mainland Affairs " ( 政制及內地事務局 ) and Immigration Departments.

The border results in a number of ongoing Illegal Immigration cases, though these crimes are more common to the east where the border is across land rather than a surface water body.

The Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act by defining a refugee as any person who is outside their country of residence or nationality, or without nationality, and is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act was amended here when the Act created the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for funding and administering federal programs for domestic resettlement and assistance to refugees.

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station on what is now Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay served as the processing center for most of the 56, 113 Chinese immigrants who are recorded as immigrating or returning from China ; upwards of 30 % more who showed up were returned to China.

However, the Immigration Department which is responsible for processing applications for name change allows applicants to submit such applications without deed polls ; anyone who has a phonetic English name only and wishes to include a western-style English name as part of his or her legal English name can apply to the Immigration Department without a deed poll.

Kirner is also a board member of Museum Victoria, operators of Melbourne Museum, Royal Exhibition Building, Scienceworks Museum and Immigration Museum, Melbourne.

The BDF, National Coast Guard, and the Immigration Department are under the Minister of Defence and Immigration, which is headed by Carlos Perdomo ; the BDF itself is commanded by Brigadier General Dario Tapia.

When Deputies are not making arrests on the street, they can be found guarding prisoners arrested by other investigative agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, protecting government officials, processing seized assets of major crime rings for investigative agencies, relocating and providing new identities for federal witnesses in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program, which is headed by the USMS.

The 2000 US census shows that Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, is the only county to have a majority of Eastern Europeans in the United States Immigration to the United States.

The nearby community of Norse is the final resting place of Cleng Peerson, commonly recognized as the " Father of Norwegian Immigration to America.

U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the Port Isabel Service Processing Center, which is located in an unincorporated area adjacent to Port Isabel-Cameron County Airport, near Los Fresnos.

( c ) As used in this section, the term “ national of the United States ” has the meaning given such term in section 101 ( a )( 22 ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( ( a )( 22 )).

The term was coined by writer Pearl S. Buck and was formalized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

that term is defined in section 101 ( a )( 26 ) of the Immigration

The term United Kingdom and Islands is used in the Immigration Act 1971.

Anderson was appointed as a member of the Immigration Appeal Board for a 10-year term in 1984.

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.

< i > Change. org </ i > Retrieved September 6, 2012, from link .</ ref > and a critical blog piece by Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, a pro-immigration research group in Washington, the dictionary updated its online definition to indicate that the term is " offensive ", similar to its entries on ethnic slurs.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates tighter restrictions on immigration, argues that defining the term as offensive is inaccurate and is done for purposes of political rhetoric ; according to Krikorian, "' anchor baby is a child born to an illegal immigrant ,'" and the revision of the definition to state that the term is offensive was done to make a political statement.

His term as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs was marked by introducing a Citizenship discussion paper which encouraged public debate about whether Australia required a formal citizenship test.

* La migra, a slang term for U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other immigration law enforcement agencies

Further to the provisions stated above, under the terms of the British Immigration Act 1971 exceptions, a long term resident Irish or Commonwealth citizen is granted immunity from deportation similar to British and Commonwealth citizens who hold right of abode by virtue of a residency term of at least 5 years in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The term " O-1 " refers to ( also known as Section 101 ( O )( i ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides for the admission of " aliens of extraordinary ability " in the stated fields.