law in 1862 restricting American vessels to transport Chinese

immigrants to the U.S. The Alien Contract Labor Laws of 1885, 1887,

1888, and 1891 restricted the immigration to the U.S. of people

entering the country to work under contracts made before their

arrival. Alien skilled laborers, under these laws, were allowed to

enter the U.S. to work in new industries. By this time anti-immigrant

felling rose with the flood of immigrants and in this period the

anti-Catholic, anti-foreign political party the Know-Nothings, was

After World War I a marked increase in racism and the growth

of isolationist sentiment in the U.S. led to demands for further tight

legislation. In 1921 a congressional act provided for a quota system

for immigrants, which the number of aliens of any nationality admitted

to the U.S. in a year could not exceed 3 percent of the number of

foreign-born residents of that nationality living in the U.S. in 1910.

This law applied to nations of Europe, the Middle East, Africa,

Australia, New Zealand, Asian Russia, and certain islands in the

Atlantic and Pacific. In the 1980s concern

for frivolous asylum claimants, an increase in INS asylum personnel,

between 1996 and 2000, roughly doubling the force to reach 10,000.

reactions: his initial public statement (determined largely by

suggestions made in dealing with this problem. The Gallegly bill is

Increase the number of border patrol agents by 1,000 each year

chambers. As passed by the House and Senate, the bill would:

4. Glenn F. Miller, Los Angles Times, 7/1/93,pA25.

reached agreement among themselves on legislation designed to combat

for "its failure to control our nation's borders."15 He claims that

face two other issues with major disagreements between the two

form legal residents who are willing to work.

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