mar 3, 1891 - The Bureau of Immigration

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The first comprehensive law for national control of immigration. Provisions. It established the Bureau of Immigration under the Treasury Department to administer all immigration laws (except the Chinese Exclusion Act), further restricted immigration by adding to the inadmissible classes persons likely to become public charges, persons suffering from certain contagious disease, felons, persons convicted of other crimes or misdemeanors, polygamists, aliens assisted by others by payment of passage, and forbade the encouragement of immigration by means of advertisement, allowed the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe rules for inspection along the borders of Canada, British Columbia, and Mexico so as not to obstruct or unnecessarily delay, impede, or annoy passengers in ordinary travel between these countries and the United States, and directed the deportation of any alien who entered the United States unlawfully.

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