Immigration Act of 1882

Immigration Act of 1882
Long title	An Act to regulate Immigration.
Enacted by	the 47th United States Congress
Effective	August 3, 1882
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 47–376
Statutes at Large	22 Stat. 214
Legislative history
	Signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur on August 3, 1882;

The Immigration Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on August 3, 1882. It imposed a head tax on non-citizens of the United States who came to American ports and restricted certain classes of people from immigrating to America, including criminals, the insane, or "any person unable to take care of him or herself." The act created what is recognized as the first federal immigration bureaucracy and laid the foundation for more regulations on immigration, such as the Immigration Act of 1891.

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