SO MANY AMERICANS STILL LIVING HERE ILLEGALLY Prior to 1875’s - TopicsExpress



          

SO MANY AMERICANS STILL LIVING HERE ILLEGALLY Prior to 1875’s Page Act and 1882’s Chinese Exclusion Act, there were no national immigration laws. None. There were laws related to naturalization and citizenship, to how vessels reported their passengers, to banning the slave trade. Once New York’s Castle Garden Immigration Station opened in 1855, arrivals there reported names and origins before entering the U.S. But for all pre-1875 immigrants, no laws applied to their arrival. They weren’t legal or illegal; they were just immigrants
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:29:22 +0000

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