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Westport, CT. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
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Westport, CT. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327) and index.
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Table of Contents
Part I Era of Unrestricted Entry and Unrestricted Admission
Colonial Period to 1880
1 --
Document 1 Province Laws
Massachusetts (March 12, 1700)
2 --
Document 2 Province Laws
Massachusetts (June 29, 1722)
3 --
Document 3 Province Laws
Massachusetts (April 2, 1731)
4 --
Document 4 Plantation Act: The British Naturalization Act of 1740 6 --
Document 5 Province Laws
Massachusetts (June 8, 1756)
9 --
Document 6 Letter of General George Washington on America as Asylum (December 2, 1783) 10 --
Document 7 Act of March 26, 1790: An Act to Establish a Uniform Rule of Naturalization 11 --
Document 8 Act of January 29, 1795: An Act to Establish a Uniform Rule of Naturalization; and to Repeal the Act Heretofore Passed on That Subject 12 --
Document 9 Act of June 18, 1798 (Amends Naturalization Act of 1795) 13 --
Document 10 Act of June 25, 1798 ("Alien Act of 1798") 15 --
Document 11 Acts of April 14, 1802 (Re: Naturalization) 16 --
Document 12 Act of March 26, 1804 (Re: Naturalization) 19 --
Document 13 Act of March 3, 1813 (Re: Naturalization) 19 --
Document 14 Act of March 2, 1819 (Re: Immigration) 20 --
Document 15 An Act to Prevent the Introduction of Paupers, from Foreign Ports or Places
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (February 25, 1820)
21 --
Document 16 Act of May 26, 1824 (Re: Naturalization) 22 --
Document 17 Alien Passengers Act
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (April 20, 1837)
22 --
Document 18 An Act Concerning Passengers in Vessels Coming to the City of New York (May 5, 1847) 23 --
Document 19 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Article VIII (1848) 25 --
Document 20 Article on Know-Nothing Party (1854) 26 --
Document 21 Letter of Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855 (Re: Know Nothings) 27 --
Document 22 Act of February 10, 1855: Citizenship of Married Women 27 --
Document 23 Millard Fillmore's Speech, June 26, 1856, on the American Party Principles 28 --
Document 24 Act of May 20, 1862: To Secure Homesteads 29 --
Document 25 Act of July 17, 1862: Honorably Discharged Soldiers (Re: Naturalization) 30 --
Document 26 Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (July 9, 1868) 31 --
Document 27 Article on the Castle Garden Immigrant Reception Station, New York City 32 --
Document 28 Act of March 3, 1875 (Re: Exclusion of Certain Asian Women and Other Matters
"The Page Law")
33 --
Document 29 Denis Kearney's Workingmen's Party Speech (December 28, 1877) 35 --
Document 30 President Rutherford B. Hayes' Veto Message of the Chinese Laborer Exclusion Bill (March 1, 1879) 35 --
Part II Limited Naturalization, Unlimited Immigration
1880 to 1920
41 --
Document 31 Treaty Between the United States and China Concerning Immigration (October 5, 1881) 49 --
Document 32 President Chester A. Arthur's Veto Message of the Chinese Laborer Exclusion Bill (April 4, 1882) 50 --
Document 33 Act of May 6, 1882: To Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese ("Chinese Exclusion Act") 51 --
Document 34 Act of August 3, 1882: Regulation of Immigration 55 --
Document 35 Act of February 26, 1885: Prohibition of Contract Labor ("Foran Act") 56 --
Document 36 Yick Wo. v. Hopkins (May 10, 1886) 58 --
Document 37 Act of February 23, 1887: Amendment to the Act to Prohibit Contract Labor 59 --
Document 38 Act of September 13, 1888: Immigration of Chinese Laborers Prohibited ("Scott Act") 60 --
Document 39 Act of October 1, 1888: Exclusion of Chinese Laborers (Rescinding Reentry) 64 --
Document 40 Chae Chan Ping v. United States (May 13, 1889) 65 --
Document 41 Act of March 3, 1891 (Re: Immigration and the Superintendent of Immigration) 66 --
Document 42 Nishimura Ekiu v. United States (January 18, 1892) 70 --
Document 43 Act of May 5, 1892: Chinese Exclusion Extended 10 Years ("Geary Act") 72 --
Document 44 Act of November 3, 1893 (Re: Amending the Chinese Exclusion Act) 74 --
Document 45 Act of August 18, 1894 (Re: Chinese Exclusion and Establishing a Bureau of Immigration) 76 --
Document 46 Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896) 77 --
Document 47 In Re Rodriguez, District Court, W.D. Texas (May 3, 1897) 79 --
Document 48 President Grover Cleveland's Veto Message of the Immigrant Literacy Test Bill (March 2, 1897) 80 --
Document 49 Wong Kim Ark v. United States (March 28, 1898) 82 --
Document 50 An Immigration Examination Officer's Speech 84 --
Document 51 Act of July 7, 1898: Annexation of Hawaiian Islands, and Acts of April 30, 1900: Regarding the Territory of Hawaii 86 --
Document 52 Act of April 29, 1902: Chinese Immigration Prohibited 88 --
Document 53 Act of February 14, 1903: Department of Commerce and Labor Act to Control Immigration 89 --
Document 54 Act of March 3, 1903 (Re: Codification of Immigration Laws) 90 --
Document 55 Act of March 3, 1903: Naturalization of Anarchists Forbidden ... 92 --
Document 56 Act of June 29, 1906: Basic Naturalization Act of 1906, Providing for the Naturalization of Aliens Throughout the United States and Establishing the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization 93 --
Document 57 Act of February 20, 1907: To Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the United States 97 --
Document 58 Act of March 2, 1907: The Expatriation Act (Re: Passports, Expatriation, and Citizenship of Women and Children) 99 --
Document 59 Executive Order No. 589, March 14, 1907: Entrance of Japanese and Korean Laborers into the United States ("Gentleman's Agreement") 100 --
Document 60 Act of June 25, 1910: The White-Slave Traffic Act 101 --
Document 61 Summary Recommendations of the Dillingham Commission Report, 1911 103 --
Document 62 President Woodrow Wilson's Veto Message of the Immigrant Literacy Bill (January 28, 1915) 107 --
Document 63 Act of February 5, 1917: Immigration Act of 1917, Regulating the Immigration of Aliens to and Residence of Aliens in the United States 109 --
Document 64 Act of March 2, 1917: An Act to Provide a Civil Government for Puerto Rico and for Other Purposes (including U.S. Citizenship) 112 --
Document 65 Joint Order of Department of State and Department of Labor (July 26, 1917) 113 --
Document 66 Act of October 5, 1917 (Re: Resumption of Citizenship) 115 --
Document 67 Act of May 9, 1918: Naturalization of Persons with Military Service; Citizenship Education; Naturalization of Other Special Classes of Persons; Alien Enemies 116 --
Document 68 Executive Order No. 2932, August 8, 1918: Rules and Regulations Governing the Issuance of Permits to Enter and Leave the United States 119 --
Document 69 Act of October 16, 1918: Exclusion and Expulsion of Anarchists and Similar Cases 120 --
Document 70 Act of November 6, 1919: Granting Citizenship to Certain Honorably Discharged Indians Who Served During the World War 121 --
Document 71 Chinese Poems from Detention Barracks, Angel Island Station, San Francisco 122 --
Document 72 Oral Interviews of Angel Island Detainees 123 --
Part III Restrictions, Refugees, and Reform
1920 to 1965
127 --
Document 73 Act of May 19, 1921: The Quota Act of 1921 (also called "Emergency Quota Act") 133 --
Document 74 Act of September 22, 1922: Married Woman's Act ("Cable Act") 135 --
Document 75 Ozawa v. United States (November 13, 1922) 136 --
Document 76 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (February 19, 1923) 138 --
Document 77 Regulation of Immigration
A Statement by the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, South Carolina (1924)
141 --
Document 78 "We Prefer to Base Quotas on Established Groups"
A Statement of Congressman William N. Vaile (April 1924)
145 --
Document 79 Act of May 26, 1924: The Immigration Act of 1924 ("Johnson-Reed Act") 148 --
Document 80 Act of June 2, 1924 and Act of June 4, 1924 (Re: Citizenship for Non-citizen Indians) 151 --
Document 81 Act of February 27, 1925: Relating to the Border Patrol 152 --
Document 82 Foreign Language Information Service Article (1925) 153 --
Document 83 Act of May 20, 1926: Air Commerce Act of 1926 155 --
Document 84 Act of March 4, 1927: Certain Puerto Rican Citizens Deemed to be Citizens of the United States 156 --
Document 85 Political Party Positions on Immigration (1928 Presidential Campaign) 157 --
Document 86 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches (1928 Presidential Campaign) 158 --
Document 87 Statement of Congressman John J. O'Connor (February 15, 1929) (Re: Nativist Attitudes) 159 --
Document 88 Act of March 2, 1929: Registry Act 162 --
Document 89 President Herbert Hoover's Proclamation No. 1872, March 22, 1929: On the National Origin Immigration Quotas 163 --
Document 90 United States v. Schwimmer (May 27, 1929) 165 --
Document 91 New York's Literacy Test Law (1929) 167 --
Document 92 Act of March 3, 1931: Naturalization of Persons Establishing Residence Abroad Prior to January 1, 1917; and Citizenship of Married Women 169 --
Document 93 Act of May 24, 1934: Citizenship of Children Born Abroad; Renunciation of Citizenship; Naturalization of Spouses of Citizens 170 --
Document 94 Acts of June 24, 1935: Naturalization of Alien Veterans, Including Veterans Ineligible to Citizenship 171 --
Document 95 Act of June 25, 1936: Repatriation of Native-Born Women Who Lost Citizenship by Marriage 173 --
Document 96 Act of August 4, 1937: Citizenship Status of Certain Persons Born in the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama 174 --
Document 97 Act of May 3, 1940: To Dignify and Emphasize the Significance of Citizenship 174 --
Document 98 Executive Order No. 8430, June 5, 1940: Documents Required of Aliens Entering the United States and Transfer of the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to the Department of Justice 175 --
Document 99 Act of June 28, 1940: Alien Registration Act of 1940 177 --
Document 100 Act of October 14, 1940 (Codifying All Previous Naturalization Laws) 180 --
Document 101 President's Proclamation No. 2523, November 14, 1941: Control of Persons Entering or Leaving the United States 183 --
Document 102 President's Proclamations of December 7, 8, 1941 (Concerning Control of Various Alien Enemies) 184 --
Document 103 Sample of Foreign Language Newspapers' Reactions to the Outbreak of World War II, 1941 188 --
Document 104 President's Proclamation No. 2537, January 14, 1942: Certificates of Identification Required of Alien Enemies 191 --
Document 105 Executive Order No. 9066, February 19, 1942, Establishing Military Areas With Authority to Exclude and Relocate "Any and All Persons," and Act of March 21, 1942 192 --
Document 106 Hirabayashi v. United States (June 21, 1943) 194 --
Document 107 Act of December 17, 1943: To Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts 196 --
Document 108 Act of February 14, 1944: Supply and Distribution of Farm Labor 197 --
Document 109 Korematsu v. United States (December 18, 1944) 198 --
Document 110 Ex Parte Mitsuye Endo (December 18, 1944) 201 --
Document 111 Statement and Directive by the President [Truman] on Immigration to the United States of Certain Displaced Persons and Refugees in Europe, December 22, 1945 204 --
Document 112 Act of December 28, 1945: Admission of Alien Spouses and Alien Minor Children of Citizen Members of the United States Armed Forces ("War Brides Act") 206 --
Document 113 Girouard v. United States (April 22, 1946) 207 --
Document 114 Act of June 25, 1948: Displaced Persons Act of 1948 210 --
Document 115 Statement of the Progressive Party on Citizenship, Naturalization, and Immigration Policy, 1948 213 --
Document 116 President's Proclamation, No. 2846, July 27, 1949: Immigration Quotas 216 --
Document 117 Act of October 31, 1949: Agricultural Act of 1949 ("Bracero Program") 217 --
Document 118 Act of June 27, 1952: The Immigration and Nationality Act ("McCarran-Walter Act") 220 --
Document 119 President Harry S. Truman's Veto Message of the Immigration and Nationality Bill, June 25, 1952 225 --
Document 120 Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei (March 16, 1953) 232 --
Document 121 Recommendations of Presidential Commission on Immigration (January 1, 1953) 233 --
Document 122 President's Proclamation No. 3004, January 17, 1953: Control of Persons Leaving or Entering the United States 236 --
Document 123 Act of August 7, 1953: Refugee Relief Act of 1953 237 --
Document 124 Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., Affirms Equal Rights of Naturalized Citizens, 1954 240 --
Document 125 Ellis Island Closes Down, November 1954 241 --
Document 126 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Message on Immigration, February 8, 1956 242 --
Document 127 Act of September 11, 1957: To Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and for Other Purposes (regarding refugees) 244 --
Document 128 Act of July 25, 1958: To Authorize the Creation of a Record of the Admission for Permanent Residence in the Case of Certain Hungarian Refugees 245 --
Document 129 Act of September 22, 1959: To Provide for the Entry of Certain Relatives of U.S. Citizens and Lawfully Resident Aliens 246 --
Document 130 Act of July 14, 1960: To Enable the United States to Participate in the Resettlement of Certain Refugees and for Other Purposes 248 --
Part IV Immigration and Naturalization in an Age of Globalization
1965 to 1996
251 --
Document 131 Senator Edward Kennedy's Comments on the Kennedy Immigration Bill (1965) 254 --
Document 132 Act of October 3, 1965: Immigration and Nationality Act of October 3, 1965 (Re: Amending the Act of June 27, 1952) 257 --
Document 133 President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Statement at the Signing of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Bill, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965 262 --
Document 134 Act of November 2, 1966: To Adjust the Status of Cuban Refugees to That of Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States, and for Other Purposes 263 --
Document 135 Afroyim v. Rusk (May 29, 1967) 264 --
Document 136 Proclamation of the President of the United States [Lyndon Baines Johnson] November 6, 1968: Multilateral Protocol and Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 267 --
Document 137 Mathews v. Diaz (June 1, 1976) 269 --
Document 138 Act of October 20, 1976, to Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 270 --
Document 139 Act of March 17, 1980: The Refugee Act 272 --
Document 140 President Ronald Reagan's Statement on U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy (July 30, 1981) 276 --
Document 141 Executive Summary Recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (1981) 278 --
Document 142 INS v. Chadha et al. (June 23, 1983) 279 --
Document 143 Jean v. Nelson (June 26, 1986) 281 --
Document 144 Act of November 6, 1986: The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) 282 --
Document 145 Act of November 29, 1990: The Immigration Act of 1990 288 --
Document 146 California's Proposition 187, November 1994: The "Save Our State" Initiative 296 --
Document 147 LULAC et al. v. Wilson et al. (November 20, 1995) 300 --
Document 148 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of August 22, 1996: The Immigration-Related Provisions 301 --
Document 149 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, September 30, 1996: Immigration Provisions of the Omnibus Spending Bill 304 --
Document 150 "Legal Immigrants Would Regain Aid in Clinton Plan" (January 25, 1999) 310.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
LeMay, M. C., & Barkan, E. R. (1999). U.S. immigration and naturalization laws and issues: a documentary history . Greenwood Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)LeMay, Michael C., 1941- and Elliott Robert. Barkan. 1999. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History. Greenwood Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)LeMay, Michael C., 1941- and Elliott Robert. Barkan. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History Greenwood Press, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)LeMay, Michael C., and Elliott Robert Barkan. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History Greenwood Press, 1999.
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