1971 Immigration Act

Going offers. Periodicals make estimates available each year. And the Federal Immigration Act of 1990 obliges employers to display on their premises semipublicly certain exact, position-specific salaries. (The following section entitled Nonimmigrant Wages discusses these salaries.)... 

Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrant, 1885-1924. New York Free Press, 1988. [See chapter 6, Struggles against Exclusion chapter 7, The 1924 Immigration Act. ]... 

The three chapters of part one sketch the history of whiteness through three periods in the American setting. The contending forces that have fashioned and refashioned whiteness in the United States across time, I argue, are capitalism (with its insatiable appetite for cheap labor) and republicanism (with its imperative of responsible citizenship). Citizenship was a racially inscribed concept at the outset of the new nation by an act of Congress, only free white immigrants could be naturalized. Yet as... 

Stoddard s own refiguring of non-Nordics as fellow Caucasians became clearer still in Re forging America (1927). Once the Johnson Act had been passed, even so alarmist a thinker as Stoddard could take heart and reconsider the stakes of the non-Nordic presence. He remained optimistic despite the serious consequences produced by [the new ] immigration, ... 

New York City enacts the Sullivan Act, which becomes the prototype for handgun registration laws. The law may have been passed by the Tammany Hall political machine in response to fear of growing crime associated with Italian immigrants. 

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