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.

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leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.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.

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

Between 1924 and 1929, 82, 000 more Jews arrived ( 4th Aliyah ), fleeing antisemitism in Poland and Hungary and because the United States Immigration Act of 1924 now kept Jews out.

In 1921, the Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Cellar Act, abolished the system of national-origin quotas.

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

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

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.

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.

In their study of the Congressional Record and committee hearings related to the Immigration Act, Mark Snyderman and Richard J. Herrnstein reported that " the testing community did not generally view its findings as favoring restrictive immigration policies like those in the 1924 Act, and Congress took virtually no notice of intelligence testing.

Key acts changed were the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( FISA ), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 ( ECPA ), the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 and Bank Secrecy Act ( BSA ), as well as the Immigration and Nationality Act.

* The Immigration Act of 1924 places restrictions on immigration.

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

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

The Immigration Act of 1924 barred entry of all those ineligible for naturalization, which again meant non-Filipino Asians.

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 U. S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.

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.

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

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The Act was soon revised by the Immigration Act of 1924.

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.

After World War I, Congress attempted to stem the flow of immigrants, still mainly coming from Europe, by passing a law in 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 limiting the number of newcomers by assigning a quota to each nationality based upon its representation in previous U. S. Census figures.

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.

But the Immigration Act of 1924 made that illegal and public opinion was strongly opposed.

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.

It was nullified by the Immigration Act of 1924, which legally banned all Asians from migrating to the United States.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at stabilizing the traditional ethnic balance and strictly limiting the total inflow.

** The Immigration Act of 1924

BGR also " lobbied on behalf of the Embassy of Mexico in 2001 to promote a bill related to Section 245 ( i ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Under the authorization of Attorney General John Ashcroft, Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy told all immigration judges to close to the public and media all hearings associated with immigration that were thought to be related to the September 11 investigation.

On December 6, 2007, after some amendments to Chow's original motion, the parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration adopted a motion recommending that " the government immediately implement a program to allow conscientious objectors and their immediate family members ( partners and dependents ), who have refused or left military service related to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations and do not have a criminal record, to apply for permanent resident status and remain in Canada ; and that the government should immediately cease any removal or deportation actions that may have already commenced against such individuals.

The subcommittee is responsible for the Department of Homeland Security and its related agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Security Administration, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U. S. Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U. S. Secret Service, and the United States Coast Guard.

She was also a member of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Asylum Immigration and related matters Following the resignation of Bobby Molloy she was promoted to Cabinet as Minister of State to the Government in April 2002.

* History of Immigration in Catalonia Museum ( MhiC ): This museum aims to analyse the history of the migratory processes related to Catalonia, mainly from the Iberian Peninsula.

This feared change caused renewed nativist sentiment, the birth of the Immigration Restriction League, and congressional studies by the Dillingham Commission from 1907 to 1911.

The Immigration Act of 1917 is one of many immigration acts during this time period which arose from nativist and xenophobic sentiment.