AS AM 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: California Alien Land Law Of 1913, Operation Wetback, Bracero Program
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The original constitution doesn"t include women, native americans, Graduations of membership and rights, following the english common law. The right to own property- the alien land laws, 1913-1948. Only accept immigrants from north and western europe. California"s regulation of poor migrants (even white) from other states, During wwii, america sent over 100,000 soldiers to europe and asia so it faced labor shortage. America asked mexico government to send more labor into the u. s. America financed railroads to rural mexico to import mexican labors labors. Operation wetback in 1954 and the problem of "mexican illegal immigrants" As a way to treat unlawful migration from mexico. Treat mexico as another country and gives it an national quota. Before the 1990s, mexico-american border weren"t not well-established. Oyama v. california (1948) and takahashi v. fish & game (1948) Sugarman v. doughall (1973) and hampton v. mow sun wong (1976) State and federal restrictions against aliens in civil service.