US IMMIGRATION POLICY EVOLUTION IN THE FIELD OF COUNTERING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE 1890s – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1950s.

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K. SURMA

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The article discusses the US immigration policy on countering illegal immigration in the late XIX – first half of the XX centuries. The author identifies the causes of the phenomenon of illegal immigration in the United States and traces the evolution of the problem. Special attention is paid to the study of the forms and means of dealing against illegal immigration.

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SURMA, K. (2020). US IMMIGRATION POLICY EVOLUTION IN THE FIELD OF COUNTERING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE 1890s – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1950s . Vestnik of Polotsk State University. Part A. Humanities, (9), 148-152. Retrieved from https://journals.psu.by/humanities/article/view/793

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