Sentence examples for prohibited immigration from inspiring English sources

It was always heart-wrenching to witness U.S. citizens forced to choose between their country and their families because DOMA prohibited immigration benefits to same-sex spouses and their stepchildren.

The Immigration Act of 1917 further prohibited immigration from Asian countries, in the terms of the law, the "barred zone," including parts of China, India, Siam, Burma, Asiatic Russia, the Polynesian Islands, and parts of Afghanistan.

There was a bill prohibiting immigration of foreign musicians.

The government maintains that for deportation purposes, two convictions for drug possession add up to the equivalent of drug trafficking, an "aggravated felony" that requires expulsion and prohibits immigration courts from granting exceptions based on individual life circumstances.

To see why, consider his take on "White Australia, Australiaa's erstwhile practice of recruiting immigration from England while explicitly prohibiting immigration from non-European countries.

The bill would prohibit immigration authorities from contracting with a facility unless it complies with ICE's detention standards and would impose financial penalties on facilities that violate the standards.

In Re Siah Mooi Guat (1988), the applicant was a Malaysian national who was declared a prohibited immigrant under section 8(3)(k) of the Immigration Act and had her re-entry permit to Singapore and employment pass cancelled.

Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents around 1871, had been denied re-entry to the United States after a trip abroad, under a law restricting Chinese immigration and prohibiting immigrants from China from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.

Many federal agencies adopted whites-only employment practices, the Army excluded blacks from officer ranks, and the immigration service prohibited the immigration of persons of African ancestry.

In 1882, egged on by white workers in Western states concerned about losing their jobs, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States.

In 1882, a federal law prohibited all immigration of Chinese citizens, which was the defacto legalization of racial discrimination, according to one U.S. senator at the time.