Immigrants and Aliens Flashcards
(23 cards)
An ______is a person who lives in a country where he or she is not a citizen.
Alien
An _______ is a person who comes to a new country intending to live there permanently.
Immigrant
United States law classifies aliens into _____ different categories
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________ is a person from a foreign nation who has established permanent residence in the US.
Resident Aliens
A __________ is a person from a foreign country who expects to stay in the US for a short, specified period of time.
Non-resident Alien
An ________is a citizen of a nation with which the US is at war.
Enemy alien
______ are people fleeing to escape persecution or danger.
Refugees
An _________ is a person who comes to the US without a legal permit.
illegal Alien
The Constitution clearly assigns ______ the power to control immigration policy.
Congress
In 1882 Congress passed the first major federal immigration law that barred entrance to people such as the _________, __________, and ____________.
Mentally Handicapped, convicts, and paupers
Congress also passed the _________________which restricted the admission of Chinese laborers.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The __________ , known known as the Johnson Act, lowered the number of immigrants allowed into the country to less than 165,000 per year.
Immigration Act of 1924
_______is a general pardon the government offers to illegal aliens.
Amnesty
By 1990, 85% of immigrants to the United States were coming from ___________________.
Asia and Latin America
In 1982, the Supreme COurt ruled that the State of ______could not deny free public education to children of illegal aliens.
Texas
The ______________encouraged immigration of workers with “ extraordinary abilities.”
Immigration Act of 1990
__________ is the legal process by which a person is granted the rights and privileges of a citizen.
Naturalization
______________in 1857 challenged the basis of state citizenship.
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford
__________ hoped that the court’s decision would begin a “chain of events” that would produce a “complete overthrow of the whole slave system.”
Fredrick douglass
The ________________ to the Constitution overruled the Dred Scott decision.
there are three basic sources of US citizenship
14th amendment
________ is a latin phrase that means “law of the soil”
Jus soli
________ means the “law of blood”
Jus sanguinis
to enter the united states an immigrant must enter the country __________
legally and must be of moral character.
