Mexican Immigration Act 1970

In 1910, the Mexican Revolution drove thousands of Mexicans across the United States-Mexico border. “Many small landowners were losing their holdings to expanding haciendas, while farm workers were increasingly and systematically trapped into peonage by accumulating debts” (“Historical Timeline”). As a result, these hard working people found great job opportunities in the United States. In May 1921, the first Quota Act becomes a law and limits the amount of immigrants from specific countries. This law decreased the amount of immigrants entering the United States in favor of Protestant Northwester Europeans and excluding Catholic Southern and Easter Europeans(“Historical Timeline”). From 1929-1936, the Mexican “Repatriation Act” Forces Immigrants

The Immigration and Nationality Act was created in 1952. Before the INA, a variety of statutes governed immigration law but were not organized in one location. The McCarran-Walter bill of 1952 collected and codified many existing provisions and reorganized the structure of immigration law (“Historical Timeline”). In 1965, the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act abolishes immigration criteria based on nation of origin and race. In 1965, the United States passed the landmark Hart-Celler [Immigration and Nationality] Act abolishing nation-of-origin restrictions. Effective June 30, 1968, immigration and naturalization exclusion on the basis of race, sex, or nationality was prohibited. Under the Hart-Celler Act, new immigration criteria was based on kinship ties, refugee status, and 'needed skills. On May 23, 1975, the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act Admits Displaced Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotian. The ill-fated war in Southeast Asia officially ended with the retreat of the United States in 1975. With this withdrawal, however, came immense responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians we had recruited in the war against

The undocumented Mexican population in 1980 was in the 1-2 million range, with the total number from all countries falling in the range of 2-4 million... Of the undocumented present and counted in 1980, 941,000 entered during 1975-1980; 576,000 entered during 1970-1974; and 540,000 entered before 1970. On November 29, 1990 - Immigration Act of 1990 Increases Limit on Legal Immigration and Revises Grounds for Exclusion and Deportation. The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the limits on legal immigration to the United States, revised all grounds for exclusion and deportation, and authorized temporary protected status to aliens of designated countries.

The DREAM Act or "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act" is introduced to the Senate by Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch on August 1, 2001. On September 1, 2007, Dick Durbin filed to p[lace the DREAM Act as an amendment, but lack of detailed requirements prevented the bill from moving