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Before 1952 a variety of different laws and statutes regulated
immigration to the United States until Congress passed The Immigration
and Nationality Act (INA) in 1952.
New York Immigration
Lawyers
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as the
McCarran-Walter Act was changed several times since its creation.
It is a stand alone body of law, but it is also included in
the United States Code. It contains articles called titles which
are divided into chapters, and they are divided into sections.
The INA Act has changed restrictions imposed on
immigrants from certain countries and adopted preference system
based on the importance of work qualifications. In general,
the Immigration and Naturalization Act divided all potential
immigrant into groups: refugees, family members of U.S. citizens (exempt
from any quotas and generally admitted to America without any
restrictions) and other immigrants who should not exceed 270,000
in a year. The Act also gave the government powers of denying
entry to the U.S. to people who were engaged in subversive activities,
or suspected of such activities, as well as, deporting naturalized
citizens.
After 9\11 the Act has been restructured several
times by executive orders in regards to suspected terrorists'
deportations and admissibility which continues to be a hot topic
in some scholarly circles and often receives wide media coverage.
2006 and 2007's brought several different attempts
to reform
U.S. immigration law but failed so far, and it remains
to be seen which option will prevail once immigration reform
is passed in the coming years.
For more information about United States immigration, please
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