History

1. How did your issue get on the national agenda? **Ok heres what i found... Immigration history can be viewed in 4 epochss, colonial period, midnineteenth century, turn of the 20th, and post 1965...after WWI and into the 1920s congress did change the nations basic policy about immigration. The National Origins Act in 1921 not only restricted the number of immigrants who might enter the US but also assigned slots according to quotas based on national origins. A peice of legislation essentially gave prefernce to immigrants from n. and w. europe, severely limited the numbers from e. and s. europe and declared all potential immigrants from asia to be unworthy of entry in the US.** 2. Who or what put your issue on the national agenda?

3. Has your issue changed over time?**Most legal immigrants were male but in the 1990s women accounted for just over half of all legal immigrants, indicating a shift away from male dominated immigration of the past. Contemporary immigrants tend to be younger then the native population of the US w/ people bewtween ages of 15 and 34, immigrants are also more likely to be married now and less to be divored then native born americans of the same age.**

4. Do the states differ from the national government in the policies implemented related to your issue?

5. Has your issue been brought before the court? if so, who brought the issue to the court and how has the judiciary ruled on the issue?