The Historical Regulation of International Migration:

The first federal immigration law (An Act to Encourage Immigration, which created the Bureau of Immigration to facilitate the importation of immigrant workers from Europe) was passed in 1864 in response to “industrialists complaints of reduction in labor supply during the Civil War, decreases in immigration and rising wages” (Calavita, 1992:4). ................
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