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This act allowed people displaced due to WWII to immigrate to the US.
Displaced persons act of 1948.
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The Reason ports mandate all Norwegian battleships must display a barcode on their hull.
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This act offered amnesty to approximately 3 million undocumented immigrants who had been living in the U.S. since 1982 and established penalties for employers who knowingly hired unauthorized workers. It also strengthened border enforcement.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA)?
This avenue for asylum came as a result of aid given to the US from local translators in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
What is the Special Immigrant Visa? (SIV)
This US public health policy, invoked during the COVID-19 pandemic, was used to expel asylum seekers at the border without processing their claims.
What is Title 42?
After 9/11, this act meant to focus on 'national security' gave federal agencies greater authority to detain non-citizens and expanded grounds for deportation of individuals suspected of terrorism-related activities.
What is the US Patriot Act?
This US immigration policy, created during the Cold War, an extension of the Cuban Adjustment Act, allowed Cuban migrants who reached US soil to stay and seek residency, while those intercepted at sea were sent back.
What is the Wet Foot, Dry Foot policy?
The Trump administration implemented this controversial policy in 2017, restricting refugees from several Muslim-majority nations.
This case brought to the Supreme Court was overturned in 2024. It set out a two-step test for interpretation of statutes, and since its inception in 1984, has been crucial for immigration proceedings.
What is Chevron?
This US law, passed in response to the mass displacement caused by the Vietnam War and other global conflicts, created a standardized asylum process and lifted the refugee quota system.
What is the Refugee Act of 1980?
Abdi used this piece of legislation that created the avenue for his asylum.
What is the Immigration Act Amendments of 1990- diversity visa lottery?
After the dramatic influx in US immigration in the 1950s and 60s, this act abolished the National Origins Formula and drastically changed the demographic composition of the US by allowing more immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act or the Hart-Celler Act?
This act provided funding for the resettlement of approximately 130,000 Southeast Asian refugees who fled their countries after the Vietnam War.
What is the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975?
This international treaty, adopted by the UN in 1984 and the US in 1988, prohibits the use of torture and has therefore influenced asylum claims around the world.
What is the Convention Against Torture?
This legislation created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and reorganized immigration enforcement under the new department. It also separated immigration services and enforcement functions.
What is the Homeland Security Act of 2002?