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The Immigration Act of 1990 revised the American immigration system, increasing the limit on legal immigration to the United States and creating a diversity visa program that allocates visas to individuals from countries with historically low rates to the United States.

The Act focused on reforming U.S. immigration law by granting amnesty to certain undocumented immigrants who had entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and had resided there continuously, as well as penalizing employers who knowingly hired undocumented workers.

Established in 1942, the Bracero Program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an exchange of notes between the United States and Mexico, for importing temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States.

This Act set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver's licenses, and aimed to prohibit terrorists from abusing flaws in the system by making it harder for them to hide their identities.

This federal law was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers and was not repealed until 1943.

This federal law established quotas that imposed limits on the number of immigrants from any country, heavily favoring those from Western Europe and establishing very limited quotas for other regions, reflecting the nativist sentiment of the time.

Signed into law by President George W. Bush, this act authorized and partially funded the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico, aiming to establish greater control over parts of the border to prevent illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

DACA is a policy that allows individuals who were brought to the United States as children without legal status to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit.

This legislation created the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program, standardized the process for admitting refugees into the United States, and provided for the comprehensive and uniform provision of services to refugees resettled in the Nation.