Bracero redirects here. For the sportscaster, see Rafael Bracero. The first Braceros arrive in Los Angeles by train in 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange The Bracero Program (named for the Spanish term bracero, strong-arm) was a series of laws and diploma
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The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the United States. Althoug
Continue reading >>The USCIS will begin accepting petitions for FY 2014 H-1Bs on April 1st of this year. Currently, the USCIS is predicting that the filing of petitions subject to the regular Cap (65,000) and Advanced Degree Cap (20,000) will exceed visa availability in the
Continue reading >>April 1st is fast approaching and this has significant meaning for this H-1B filing season. As we have previously mentioned on our website, the USCIS predicts this year that the H-1B caps (both the regular and Master’s cap) will be met within the first 5
Continue reading >>Argued March 5, 8, 1897 Decided March 28, 1898 Holding Children born in the United States generally acquire United States citizenship at birth via the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Court membership Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate
Continue reading >>After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and prior to the Wong Kim Ark case, the question of jus soli citizenship for children of aliens arose only with reference to American Indians and Chinese. The Supreme Court ruled in an 1884 case (Elk v. Wilk
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