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.

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Immigration reform is a term used in political discussion regarding changes to current immigration policy of a country.

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

Immigration doubled between 1965 and 1970, and again between 1970 and 1990.

The Immigration Act of 1965 finally allowed Asians and all persons from all nations be given somewhat equal access to immigration and naturalization.

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965 at Liberty Island as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy | Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and others look on.

Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially changed U. S. immigration policy toward non-Europeans.

" Immigration doubled between 1965 and 1970, and doubled again between 1970 and 1990.

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.

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

The Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 abolished the national-origin quotas in immigration law.

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.

Along with Ted Kennedy, he was one of the original co-sponsors of the Immigration Act of 1965.

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

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.

Over the years since, the United States has codified this obligation in the provisions of Section 289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and as amended in 1965.

With the ensuing Great Depression, and despite worsening conditions for European Jews, with the rise of Nazi Germany, these quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

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

With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Koreans became one of the fastest growing Asian groups in the United States, surpassed only by Filipinos.

In 1965, the Immigration Act abolished the quota system that had restricted the numbers of Asians allowed to enter the United States.

After the national origins system was relaxed and repealed by Immigration Acts in 1952 and 1965, many Taiwanese people came to the United States, forming the first wave of Taiwanese immigration.

Many are second-generation ( parents who are naturalized U. S. citizens ) born after the U. S. Immigration Act of 1965 were free from limits on immigration from East Asia.

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.

Second Ellis Island Immigration Station, opened on December 17, 1900 ( photo 1905 )

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

Since the 1980s the French government has opened new museums of colonial artifacts including the Musée du Quai Branly and the Cité Nationale de l ’ Histoire de l ’ Immigration, in Paris ; the Centre Culturel Tjibaou in New Caledonia ; and the Maison des Civilisations et de l ’ Unité Réunionnaise in Réunion.

Bangunan Sultan Iskandar – Customs, Immigration and Quarantine centre was opened in December 2008.

The Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation opened in November 2007 and the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation opened in June 2008.

An earlier incarnation of today's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, the Villawood Migrant Hostel, was opened in 1976.

Perth Immigration Detention Centre was opened in 1981 and is located near the domestic terminal of Perth Airport, Western Australia.

On 23 March 2004, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's Coastal Command Headquarters was formally opened by the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Wong Kan Seng.

** OSIA archives at the University of Minnesota ’ s Immigration History Research Center are opened.

The first facility, the Houston Processing Center, was opened in 1984 and was contracted by the U. S. Department of Justice for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service ).