Talk:History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States

message: No Table of contents?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.228.85.87 (talk • contribs) 
:A TOC is automatically created by sections, which this article does not have. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 16:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Section headings and automatic TOC have since been added. Chuckiesdad/Talk/Contribs 05:15, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Table of Contents

message: * Agree with the merger proposal with List of United States immigration legislation, the two articles are essentially the bird's content in different formats, and both would be improved by a cow. Chuckiesdad/Talk/Contribs 05:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: at few points in the article, it is mentioned as if the writer is a US citizen, which is not the purpose of an Encyclopedia.
Phrases like "holes in our security" really have no place in here, but instead holes in the "US security".
77.124.78.175 (talk) 12:45, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for noting that. I've made the changes you suggest, as well as that suggested by 77.124.78.175 above.   Will Beback  talk   17:34, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objective View 

message: The sentence "In 1870, the law was broadened to allow African Americans to be naturalized" is technically flawed.
A person being naturalized, is, by definition, not American until the naturalization is complete.
A person of the same race as an African-American is who is being naturalized is therefore not African-American prior to the naturalization. (Someone of that race born in the U.S. is an African-American from birth, but would not require naturalization.)
The only possible exception would be either
(a) someone who is a citizen of Canada or a Latin American country (on the theory that "American" includes the whole Western hemisphere, not just the U.S.) or
(b) someone who has mixed African and American ancestry. However, the term "African American" normally means an American of African ancestry, and more specifically, having ancestry in the black racial groups of sub-Saharan Africa (Arabs from Egypt, Libya, Morocco, etc., are not included in the definition that appears on affirmative action forms).
Since a person being naturalized is not yet a U.S. citizen, we should use whatever term Wikipedia normally uses for persons of that race who are not U.S. citizens -- not "African American". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.156.7 (talk) 01:20, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word American to refer to immigrants who are not yet American 

message: The introductory section of the article currently states, "growing support for eugenics eventually drove the US government to adopt immigration laws. These laws were intended to end the open immigration policy which the Founding Fathers had permitted, in favor of preventing "racial taint" from immigrants who entered from undesirable countries." What is the basis for this statement? The first federal regulation of immigration was to limit criminal professions; prostitution and convicts were banned. Later laws were intended to prevent crime and degeneracy, not through eugenics, but through perceived behavior. Immigration laws also were motivated by labor interests. I have not found any documentation anywhere that shows that the teachings of the eugenics movement played a role in the formulation of immigration laws in the United States. Pooua (talk) 19:08, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Why have you not found this documentation? Did you scrupulously avoid doing a Google search or something? What about Harry Laughlin?
*
*Did you search Google Books?
*Did you read Wikipedia's own article on the Immigration Act of 1924? 
*It seems that the evidence for the influence of eugenics is as plain as the nose on my Irish face (my ancestors came here during the Potato Famine, and faced anti-Catholic Know-Nothings as well as "No Irish Need Apply", because Irishmen like me are known for being consistently drunken and belligerent. I have a hard time accepting that you can find no evidence for the passage you are disputing. Elizium23 (talk) 21:59, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That eugenics influenced immigrations laws in the 20th century (or even earlier), is not support for the claim that it's what "drove the US government to adopt immigration laws" when the first immigration laws were decades earlier and motivated by different goals. The sentence should be deleted or at the very least reworded to clarify its not talking about initial adoption but later developments. 2600:8806:501:F500:A476:6B02:6D95:A29F (talk) 15:50, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motivating Factor(s) for Early Immigration Laws 

message: According to CSIS there was no federal immigration until 1875, Chy Lung v. Freeman because up to that point the states were the ones in charge of immigration law and each state had its own laws as to who could be admitted and who couldn't. In Chy Lung v. Freeman, which involved California immigration laws that banned certain persons, the US Supreme Court ruled that because immigration policy affects the entire country, it could not be decided by individual states and instead had to be decided by the US Congress. It was after this that Congress started passing the laws we see today. 
Prior to 1875, immigration policy was left entirely to the states. This was not an "open borders" policy nor did it mean there were no regulations on who could immigrate. It means that if you want to know about immigration law from that period you have to look at the laws of each individual state because each state had its own immigration laws. 
Take a look: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/92/275.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.6.71.122 (talk) 20:04, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immigration Law Prior to 1875 

message: President Biden has been in office for over a year now, and the article ends with a reference to Trump's policy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.97.58 (talk) 15:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Content After Presidency of Donald Trump 

message: — Assignment last updated by Dorbwe (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Race, Law, and Politics