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Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:12:25 -0500

Strongly supported by President Gerald R. Ford and opposed by those who feared an influx of Southeast Asian refugees after the end of the conflict in Vietnam

Indiana

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:06:28 -0500

Because of Indiana’s history and geographical location, its population has a higher percentage of people who originated in the American South than any other midwestern state.

Indentured servitude

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:56:39 -0500

During the colonial period of British North America, a high proportion of British working-class immigrants to the American colonies came as indentured servants.

In re Tiburcio Parrott

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:45:17 -0600

In the Parrott ruling, a U.S. district court in California prohibited the application of a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited the employment of Chinese persons in the state.

Immigration waves

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:40:02 -0600

With each immigration wave that the United States has experienced, the culture and context of life in the United States have changed considerably.

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:28:06 -0600

The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was designed to balance public concerns about increasing illegal immigration with business’s need for cheap labor and the need to address issues of racial and ethnic discrimination.

Immigration lawyers

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:22:43 -0600

As the complexities and restrictions of U.S. immigration law have increased, the legal profession’s subspecialty of immigration lawyers has flourished, extending in some cases to social-cause lawyering.

Immigration law

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:59:32 -0600

The gatekeeper of the borders of the United States, federal immigration law determines who may enter the country, how long they may stay, their status, their rights and duties while in the United States, and how they may become resident aliens or American citizens.

Immigration Convention of 1886

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:52:18 -0600

As a landmark agreement between two sovereign nations designed to protect the human rights of Japanese immigrants relocating to the kingdom of Hawaii, the Immigration Convention reflected less a lofty humanitarian imperative than a pragmatic economic necessity. . .

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:45:28 -0600

The St. Cyr decision held that recent federal legislation did not eliminate the federal courts’ jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petitions from resident aliens who were deportable because of felony convictions.