The U.S. Immigration Debate In 2004, United States President George W. Bush proposed a guest worker program to absorb migrant laborers who would otherwise come to the U.S. as illegal aliens. ...

Illegal immigration
Labor shortage
9.11 and racial profiling
U.S-Mexico Border
NAFTA
Download high resolution version (1624x1748, 474 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Illegal immigration to the United States refers to the act of moving to or settling in the United States temporarily or permanently in violation of U.S. immigration and nationality law. ... A Labor shortage is an economic condition in which there are insufficient qualified candidates (employees) to fill the market-place demands for employment at any price. ... This article talks about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. ... It has been suggested that Driving While Black be merged into this article or section. ... The border between Mexico and the United States spans four U.S. states, six Mexican states, and has over twenty commercial crossings. ... Nafta or NAFTA may refer to: an acronym for the North American Free Trade Agreement an acronym for the New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement the town/Tokyo of Nafta, Tunisia This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

DREAM Act
Guest worker program
H.R. 4437 (December 2005)
Minuteman Project
S. 2611 (May 2006)
Immigration reduction
Free migration
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (colloquially known as The DREAM Act) is a bill proposed in the United States Senate by Sens. ... House Resolution 4437 (The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005) was passed by the United States House of Representatives on December 16, 2005 by a vote of 239 to 182. ... The Minuteman Project Civil Defense Corps was started in April 2005 by a group of American citizens to deter illegal crossings of the United States–Mexico border. ... Senate Bill 2611 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act) (abbreviated CIRA), is a United States Senate bill dealing with immigration reform. ... Immigration reduction refers to movements active within the United States that advocate a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into the United States or other countries. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

2006 protests
In 2006, millions of people were involved in protests over a proposed reform to existing United States immigration laws. ...

CCIR, NIF, FIRM, WAAA
NCLR, LULAC
FAIR
CIS, NumbersUSA
NAOC Logo The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR), also known as CCIR/NAOC or New American Opportunity Campaign is a non-profit immigrant rights advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, established in 2003 to pass comprehensive immigration reform. ... The National Immigration Forum was established in 1982, dedicated to increasing public support for admitting larger numbers of immigrants and refugees into the United States. ... CCC Logo The Center for Community Change (CCC) is one of the larger community building organizations in the United States. ... The We Are Americe Alliance (WAAA) is a national alliance of immigrant rights organizations and allies in the United States that work towards social justice, including comprehensive immigration reform and immigrants civic participation. ... The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a non-profit, and non-partisan political advocacy group in the United States. ... LULAC is an organization which strives for rights for Hispanic Americans. ... The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is an immigration reduction organization in the United States, founded in 1979 by John Tanton. ... The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) was founded in 1985 as a think-tank for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). ... NumbersUSA is an immigration reduction organization whose intent is to reduce United States annual immigration to pre-1965 levels, but without the country of origin quotas that were in place during this period. ...

Naturalization Act (1795)
14th Amendment (1868)
Chinese Exclusion (1882)
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 Asian Exclusion (1924)
Bracero Program (1942-64)
INS Act of 1965
IRCA (1986)
IIRIRA (1996)
The first naturalization law in the United States was the 1795 Naturalization Act which restricted citizenship to free white persons who had resided in the country for five years. ... Amendment XIV in the National Archives The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments, and it includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses among others. ... The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following 1880 revisions to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. ... A Gentlemens agreement is an informal agreement between two parties. ... President Coolidge signs the immigration act on the White House South Lawn along with appropriation bills for the Veterans Bureau. ... The Bracero Program was originally a binational temporary contract labor program initiated, in August 1942, by an exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico after a series of negotiations. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Immigration and Nationality Act. ... The Immigration Reform and Control Act (Simpson-Mazzoli Act, IRCA, Pub. ... The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub. ...