Problems Associated with Immigration

1. Problems Associated with Immigration Overpopulation Lack of Health Care/Increasing Taxes for Legals Terrorism

2. Problems Associated with Immigration Illegal Immigrants in Hospitals Crime Rate

3. Major Immigration Legislation Emergency Quota Act (1921) National Origins Act (1924) Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

4. Major Immigration Legislation The Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)- Amnesty to 3m. & Sanctions for Alien Employers Patriot Act (2001)- Random Detaining of Suspected Terrorists 1995: California voters approved Proposition 187 to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing publicly funded education, welfare, and health services. The proposition was later found to be unconstitutional Welfare reform, immigration reform, and antiterrorism legislation (1996)—significantly reduced immigrants’ access to social safety-net programs, toughened border enforcement, closed opportunities for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status, made it difficult to gain asylum, stripped many due-process rights, reduced access to the courts, and greatly expanded grounds for deportation

5. Who’s Taken the Lead? FEDERAL GOV’T