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Nolan M

Center for Immigration Studies - 0 views

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  • The nationÿfds immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a record of 37.9 million in 2007.
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  • highest level in 80 years
  • one in eight U.S. residents
  • immigrants
  • immigrants
  • nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien
  • Half of Mexican and Central American immigrants and one-third of South American immigrants are illegal.  
  • Since 2000, 10.3 million immigrants have arrived
  • (5.6 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.  
  • increases in immigrants were in California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Nolan M

American Immigration Past and Present - 0 views

  • America has served as the destination point for a steady flow of immigrants
  • Their numbers declined with the onset of the Revolutionary War during the 1770s
  • picked up strongly again during the 1840s and 1850s.
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  • this need was filled once again by immigrants arriving from Europe.
  • 25 million arrived between 1866 and 1915
  • immigrants had come mainly from northern European countries such as England, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries
  • 1880s most new immigrants were arriving from southern and eastern European countries such as Italy, Poland and Russia.
  • World War I in 1919, immigration declined dramatically
  • low through the Depression era of the 1930s and the World War II years of the early 1940s.
  • began to increase again during the late 1940s, and has risen steadily since that time.
  • The current phase of immigration history began in 1965, when strict quotas based on nationality were eliminated. In 1978, the United States government set a single annual world quota of 290,000, and this ceiling was raised again in 1990 to 700,000.
  • pace that at times has exceeded one million new arrivals per year
Nolan M

Immigration and U.S. History - 1 views

  • before it achieved independence and afterward, relied on the flow of newcomers from abroad to people its relatively open and unsettled lands. It shared this historical reality with Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, among other nations.
  • These immigrants, usually referred to as settlers, opted in the main for farming, with the promise of cheap land a major draw for relatively impoverished northern and western Europeans who found themselves unable to take advantage of the modernization of their home economies. One group of immigrants deserves some special attention because their experience sheds much light on the forces impelling migration. In this era, considerable numbers of women and men came as indentured
  • servants. They entered into contracts with employers who specified the time and conditions of labor in exchange for passage to the New World. While they endured harsh conditions during their time of service, as a result of their labors, they acquired ownership of small pieces of land that they could then work as independent yeoman farmers.
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  • The first, and longest, era stretched from the 17th century through the early 19th century. Immigrants came from a range of places, including the German-speaking area of the Palatinate, France (Protestant Huguenots), and the Netherlands. Other immigrants were Jews, also from the Netherlands and from Poland, but most immigrants of this era tended to hail from the British Isles, with English, Scottish, Welsh, and Ulster Irish gravitating toward different colonies (later states) and regions.
  • The numbers who came during this era were relatively small
  • changed, however, by the 1820s.
  • first era of mass migration
  • decade through the 1880s, about 15 million
  • immigrants made their way to the United States
Melissa Pietricola

Teachers' Domain: A Cold Reception: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the United States - 0 views

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    nativism new immigrants anti-immigrant sentiment
Nolan M

Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry - 0 views

  • America has power, but not justice.In prison, we were victimized as if we were guilty.Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal.I bow my head in reflection but there isnothing I can do.
Jiahui L

Statue of Liberty Tickets | State of Liberty Tours - 0 views

  • Ellis Island, where more than 12 million immigrants first entered America
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