What are the different ways in which the United States immigration policy has evolved over the last 100 years? After the United States had first implemented immigration policies after they won their freedom. Each state started implementing them one after another, each a different one than the previous. Maryland favored Catholic immigrants, while Pennsylvania preferred Quakers. In 1875, the whole of the United States came out with restrictions on immigrants which included bans on criminals, people with contagious diseases, polygamists, anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. In the early 1900s, immigration shifted from people from northern and western Europe to southern and eastern Europeans. In response the Quotas Act and Origins Act were passed in 1921 and 1924 to hopefully restore earlier immigration patterns. Unfortunately, by 1943, long-standing immigration restrictions began to crumble when a law had been made to limit the number of Chinese to immigrate. So, in 1965, a combination of political, social, and geopolitical factors led to passage of of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act that created a new system favoring family reunification and skilled immigrants, rather than country quotas. The law imposed the first limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere since before then, Latin Americans had been allowed to enter the U.S. without many restrictions, so now it’d be more difficult for them to get in. The most recent change to this policy was by Obama in 2012, where he added to the list of reasons to come into the United States, was if you were domestically attacked. But now that Trump has been in office, people are questioning whether he’s keeping true to this policy.
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