For countless immigrants, the struggle to arrive in America was rivaled only by the struggle to gain acceptance among the existing American population. It has been said that immigration is as old as America itself. ... At that time, the Americas had been settled by the Indians, who were soon threatened by the first immigrants of America. ... As the Chinese population in America increased, many of these immigrants came together to form primarily poor Chinatowns in virtually every major U.S. city. ... Americans accused the Chinese of almost everything possible. ...

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The large inflow of Latinos, combined with growth in the U.S. native-born Hispanic population, have considerably altered the demographic structure of the country in this last century. The 2010 Census accounted for more than half of the nation's population growth in the previous decade. ... Hispanic population surged 43 percent to reach 50.5 million. ... There is nothing in this for republicans, independents, Americans and it isn't good for the American people, the only thing it will be good for democrats. ... If you are a foreign student seeking to start a business related in science...

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America the land of opportunity, or is it? In the first wave of colonists to arrive in America, populations that started off in the thousands were whittled down to hundreds, by harsh winters, disease, and starvation. ... Once they reached America it was a different story. ... America also held a lot of opportunities for people who didn't have a reason to stay in England. ... They have no reason to stay in England, because they will not get anything from there father once he dies so they go to America to find there fortune. ...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. Immigrants have a harder time in achieving the American dream compared to Americans. Americans already had a head start in accomplishing the American dream. ... America did not want to allow too many immigrants into America. ... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. Immigrants have a harder time in achieving the American dream compared to Americans. Americans already had a head start in accomp lishing the American dream. ... America did not want to allow too many immigrants into America. ... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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The early 20-century was a big chaos and had continuous fluctuation of economy in America, and this instability of American society led to several social issues such as unemployment and the growth of large communities of foreign peoples. ... The original purpose of this prohibition law was to decrease the new immigrant population, but since the result was failure, Congress passed an emergency immigration act, which contained a quota system by controlling annual immigrant population as no more than 3 percent of the number of persons of that nationality who had been in America in 1910. ... Sinc...

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According to a poll on fairus.org, 67% of Americans think America should close its borders. ... Immigrants are crowding America. ... There are about 27 million immigrants already living in the United States; this is a larger population than 49 out of the 50 states. Immigrant population as a whole is a huge net burden on the economy. ... The population of the United States was 130 million in 1930, over 260 million today, and if current immigration levels continue, it"ll be 340 million by 2050. ...

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Latin Americans are the largest immigrant group in the U.S. consisting of approximately 31 million civilians, which is approximately 11.2 percent of the United States population. ... A popular reason for Latin American immigration is employment based. ... Latin American immigrants made the U.S. economy stronger by immigrating. Although the economy was rising because of all the positive outcomes of immigration, native-born American workers thought the Latin American immigrants were a threat. ... Because of this belief, the Americans thought there was not enough wealth for their own taking. ...

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" This process allows immigrant America workers to pay all the same taxes as you and I pay. ... Approximately 40% of these "green card" recipients, or LPRs, were born in Asia, while about 32% were born in North America. ... Immigrants that now live in the US make up most of the American population. ... " This also means that now, America is filled with many races of people from around the world. ... Immigration has made our country more than just a general population, but a population of people from around the globe, with many different cultures and languages that has been spread to ...

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Soon, despite American differences, the number of Asian American immigrants rapidly grew in the United States. ... That made up 1.5 percent of the population at that time. ... Asian Americans have brought there religion practices with them, which allow Americans to share a new cultural experience. ... Asia is also home of the largest Muslim population in the world, as well as significant numbers of Christians and Jews. ... They are as a whole better educated, occupy higher rung in the occupational ladder, and earn more money than the general U.S. population. ...

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Unlike in the past years when immigrants coming to the US mostly came from Europe, the new act caused a tremendous change of the American population. One would note easily that immigrants started streaming in from Asia, Latin America and later from Africa. ...

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Consequently, I argue that although Central American and Mexican immigrants are racialized as Latinos who take jobs away from American citizens, hold similar social status, and both use networks, the immigration by the people from Mexico since the 1960's has many differences from that of the people of Central America. ... Consequently, in 1970 and 1971 a recession made both Central American and Mexican immigrants targets of criticism because of the thought that "illegal aliens" were stealing jobs from American citizens. ... Networks wee also important to Central American immigrant. ......

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"Living in America: Challenges Facing New Immigrants and Refugees" by Katherine Garrett and Robin Wood Johnson Foundation is a focus group study that explains the common challenges immigrants encounter when they come to America. ... Being unable to speak English attributes to an immigrant's difficulty to assimilate into American society. ... America is the home of the free, and that is what attracts many immigrants; therefore, America needs to improve the availability of ESL education. ... If immigrants have to learn about American customs and cultures, Americans should lear...

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The population had doubled within 30 years of fighting one of the most deadly battles of the country's history. ... The population had doubled within 30 years, driving many citizens out of business (farmers being the majority) and into either factory jobs with horrible conditions, or no job at all, resulting in an unemployment rate rising almost as fast as the immigration rate. ... From the end of the Civil war to the end of the 19th century, the United States population had doubled due to the huge influx of immigrants, seeking a promising future in the "land of freedom". ... This lead to...

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Americans did not want to cooperate with the immigrants. ... American citizens did not care for immigrants at all. ... American citizens wanted immigrants to assimilate the American culture. ... Even though there were more and more immigrants coming to America, the overall percent of the population that they made up remained mostly constant. ... The make up of the immigrant population was always changing and therefore we continually needed to adapt. ...

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In 1763 the population of New York had grown to be around 2.5 million people. The Non-English and black slaves made up one third of the population. Once the American Revolution started the immigration slowed down. ... A lot of the Irish settled in the Northeastern part of America. ... During that decade nearly 8.8 MILLION people arrived in America. ...

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The Asian Americans were no exception to racism and segregating laws. ... These three components shaped America history for immigrants. ... Back in Los Angeles County, the Chinese population increased and so did the resentment within the white working class. ... To the Chinese, immigrating to America was an opportunity of a lifetime. ... From 1882 to 1943, the entry of Chinese to America were denied. ...

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Asian Americans include Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, etc. ... The Chinese population doubled itself from 1860-1870. ... That is how Chicago's American Filipino history began. ... In 1906 the Korean government prohibited immigration to North America. ... However, much of the clothes are similar to the way Americans dress. ...

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Illegal Immigration affects all Americans, even if they do not know it. ... Currently, illegal immigrants make up about 4% of the United States' population. ... Americans will work if they have the opportunity to. ... Non-citizens are 8.6 percent of the nation's adult population" (Camarota, Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue). ... Gangs in America would also have a lower supply of drugs. ...

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The growth of the American economy is due to many factors. ... Big buisness was a big factor in the growth in the American economy but mass immigration was the biggest factor. ... This mass employment although couldnt of come with the small population of 62 million in the 1890 but instead these big buisnesses had a massive pool of low skilled, low pay workers. ... This promopted and made it easy for immigrants to get from Europe to America and led on Mass immigration. ... This all making the growth in American economy much faster. ...

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Arabs began immigrating to the U.S. since the late nineteenth century to escape the problems of over population in their native countries and improve their living standards; however, many of them prove to be of great value to the American community in different fields. ... For example, it is believed that Arab Americans replace Native Americans in the work place and thus more and more Americans become jobless. ... However, others believe that many of the Arab Americans actually contribute to the American community. ... According to Samia El-Badry, an expert on Arab American demographics, "Ara...

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Only three percent of the immigrant population of each country living in the United States was allowed to enter the country each year. ... During this time America became a "melting pot" as styled by Woodrow Wilson. People immigrated to America because they wanted to find the "American dream.... Isolationism in terms of trade helped protect the American industry. ... The immigration policy is consistent with American ideals because American ideals are based upon the sanctity of life and the American dream. ...

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Unlike in the past years when immigrants coming to the US mostly came from Europe, the new act caused a tremendous change of the American population. One would note easily that immigrants started streaming in from Asia, Latin America and later from Africa. ...

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According to Microsoft Bookshelf Encyclopedia, the reason for immigration is often social for example, population increases, defeat in war, desire for a better life through material gain and the search for religious or political freedom. ... The website of the Federation for American Immigration Reform explains how the first great wave of immigrants came to the U.S. ... This law forbade American vessels to transport Chinese immigrants to the United States. ... It would seem that the number would be quite small, however, the year was 1919 and the majority of the U.S. population was fore...

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Annie Proulx explores a similar situation of new immigrants coming to America seeking for a better life also known as the American dream but soon realize what its all about. ... By not being well educated, their information is controlled by a group of people which decide what to teach them, which results of raising a population to certain beliefs that a small group think to be just. ... Proulx uses the different types of music as metaphor to the different races that immigrated to America. ... This is why education by itself will not help the situation in America and the Muslims in Afghanistan....

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