U.S. Immigration Laws

1. Quota Act of 1921/National Origins Act of 1924
   - established quotas from each country
   - 2% of the # of people born in a country living in
   U.S. according to the 1910 census
   - result: favored N. and W. Europe
   
2. Immigration Act of 1965
   - country quotas eliminated (1968)
   - hemisphere quotas established
   - 170,000 annually from eastern hemisphere
   - 120,000 annually from western hemisphere
   
3. Immigration Act of 1978
   - hemisphere quotas eliminated
   - global quota of 290,000 annually
   - maximum of 20,000 from any one country
   
4. Immigration Act of 1990
   - total raised to 714,000 annually
   (675,000 for 1995)

   -Chain Migration preference system:

   1. * preference given to relatives
      * 480,000 of 675,000 in 1995