Policies Affecting Southeast Asian Americans
1921 | Immigration Act (Johnson Act) |
1924 | Immigration Act (Johnson-Reed) |
1952 | Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) upheld national origins quotas |
1965 | Immigration and Naturalization Act ended national origin as basis for admission to United States |
1973 | Vietnam peace accord signed; last U.S. troops withdrawn from Vietnam |
1975 | Parole authorized for Vietnamese dependents of U.S. citizens
Operation Frequent Wind-U.S. government evacuated U.S. and Vietnamese people from Saigon Refugee centers opened in United States in various forts during April and May President Gerald Ford established interagency Task Force (IATF) in April to coordinate federal activity concerned with evacuation and resettlement of Vietnamese refugees Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act provided funds for resettlement programs All refugee centers closed and IATF terminated in December; Department of Health, Education, Welfare Refugee Task Force assumed responsibility for refugee resettlement Parole granted for Cambodians in third countries |
1976 | Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act extended educational assistance for elementary and secondary education of refugee children |
1977 | Public Law 956-135-Indochinese refugee allowed to become permanent residents of United States (could apply for citizenship five years after arrival)
Additional refugees granted parole by attorney general Federal government supplemented state educational agency budgets for reimbursement of local schools with refugee children Congress passed bill to phase down refugee assistance over next four years, also provided adjustment of status from parole to permanent resident alien |
1980 | Refugee Act |
1989 | Amerasian Homecoming Act |
1990 | Immigration Act
Congress passed legislation exempting Vietnamese in United States who are not U.S. citizens from a law banning anyone but a citizen from owning and piloting commercial fishing boats off the California coast [Back] |