and formation of America, new federal laws have resulted in mass

immigration. Throughout history, Congress has enacted laws and has

had to amend them to control the flow of both legal and illegal

In 1948, legislation was first enacted in an effort to control the

number of applicants fleeing persecution; it permitted 205,000

refugees to enter the United States. In 1952, Congress set in place

major regulations setting parameters and quotas mostly for the

eastern hemisphere and leaving the western hemisphere unrestricted.

In 1953, congress was again faced with having to increase the

number of refugees from 205,000 to 415,000. In order to qualify as a

refugee one must have a well founded fear of persecution, not be

firmly resettled in a third country, and must not be an aggravated

felon. In 1965, the national origin's quota system was abolished but

still maintained was the principle of numerical by establishing

170,000 hemispheric and 20,000 per country ceilings and a seven

category preference system. This system included the spouses of

lawful resident aliens, brother and siste

The visa waiver pilot program (VWPP) is designed to extend

twenty-nine countries are signatory to the treaty. In order to qualify,

studies, the total net cost of amnesty after ten years comes to over

be faced with and order of deportation. The only exception, is that

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