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Immigration. Basic Terms. Immigrants Legal (with visa) Illegal (no visa or overstayed visa) Refugees Asylees Supply/Demand Dynamic Remittances. Evolution of Immigration Law. Prior to the Civil War period: no restrictions 1875: prostitutes, convicts no allowed
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Basic Terms • Immigrants • Legal (with visa) • Illegal (no visa or overstayed visa) • Refugees • Asylees • Supply/Demand Dynamic • Remittances
Evolution of Immigration Law • Prior to the Civil War period: no restrictions • 1875: prostitutes, convicts no allowed • 1882: mental illness, retardation, people “likely to become a public charge” • 1885: contract laborers • 1903 and 1907: epileptics, vagrants, polygamists, political “radicals,” certain handicaps and unattended children
Evolution of Immigration Law • 1920s: quotas on European immigration, not on Latin American immigration. • Great Depression: repatriation from 1931-1939 • WII and the Bracero Program • 1965: no more quotas, ceilings per country • 1986: IRCA (see p. 204 in Weeks) • 1996: IIRIRA (see p. 207)