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Problems Associated with Immigration

Overpopulation

Terrorism

Lack of Health Care/Increasing Taxes for Legals

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Problems Associated with Immigration

Illegal Immigrants in Hospitals

Crime Rate

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Major Immigration Legislation

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Emergency Quota Act (1921)National Origins Act (1924)

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Major Immigration LegislationThe Immigration Reform andControl Act (1986)- Amnesty to 3m. & Sanctions for Alien Employers

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

Patriot Act (2001)- Random Detaining of Suspected Terrorists

Welfare reform, immigration reform, and antiterrorism legislation (1996)—significantlyreduced immigrants’ access to socialsafety-net programs, toughened borderenforcement, closed opportunities forundocumented immigrants to legalizetheir status, made it difficult to gainasylum, stripped many due-processrights, reduced access to the courts,and greatly expanded grounds fordeportation

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Who’s Taken the Lead?

FEDERAL GOV’T