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Immigration. Basic Terms Immigrants  Legal (with visa)  Illegal (no visa or overstayed visa) Refugees Asylees Supply/Demand Dynamic Remittances.

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1 Immigration

2 Basic Terms Immigrants  Legal (with visa)  Illegal (no visa or overstayed visa) Refugees Asylees Supply/Demand Dynamic Remittances

3 Evolution of Immigration Law Prior to the Civil War period: no restrictions 1875: prostitutes, convicts no allowed 1882: mental illness, retardation, people “likely to become a public charge” 1885: contract laborers 1903 and 1907: epileptics, vagrants, polygamists, political “radicals,” certain handicaps and unattended children

4 Evolution of Immigration Law 1920s: quotas on European immigration, not on Latin American immigration. Great Depression: repatriation from 1931-1939 WII and the Bracero Program 1965: no more quotas, ceilings per country 1986: IRCA (see p. 204 in Weeks) 1996: IIRIRA (see p. 207)

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