James Baldwin High School Anselmo Anorve

A Block April 29th, 2012

Borders

Since 1790 to 2006, certain immigration policies have been put in place. Most which

seem unfair to certain immigrants coming into the U.S., restricting them because of their race,

lack of intelligence, or because they just didn’t have the right skills in order to work in the U.S.

We will be focusing on 4 immigration policies overall. 2 racial based policies, like the Chinese

Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming

into the U.S. Also along with the Chinese Exclusion Act is the Naturalization Act of 1790. The

Naturalization Act of 1790 only really focused on the U.S.’s need to bring in people with “good

moral character” because the U.S. wanted to make their nation, to what they believed as

“pure”. Also, 2 profession based policies, like the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,

which was a law that took away jobs from every single immigrant that was in the U.S. without

proper documentation. Also, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which is a law that allowed for a

huge fence to be placed along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to prevent immigrants from

Mexico from sneaking into the U.S. Based on these policies the Immigration Policies from 1790

to 2006 were unjustified because they limited certain immigrants from coming into the U.S.

The immigration policies from 1790 to 1942 were unjustified because it had prevented

certain immigrants from being allowed into the United States. The Naturalization Act of 1790,

as stated before, was one of these unjustified acts. This act was only for white immigrants.

It gave white immigrants the privilege to come into U.S. land only if they met the

qualifications and