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Illegal Immigration 19th Century

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With the Presidental Elections coming soon, immigration is a hot topic. Candidates like Donald Trump, promise to reform immigration. One might argue that Donald Trump, himself, is an immigrant. The only citizens who are truly native to this country are the American Indians. Nevertheless, immigrants are pursued and deported each and everyday. One might say that America was founded by immigration, so why are they constanstly being deported. There are illegal immigrates and legal immigrates. I believe that this country should tighten up its policy on illegal immigration, in that it harms the economy and takes away jobs from American citizens. Many employers realize that the immigration system has many flaws and they take advantage …show more content…

Less then 1 million European immigrants came to the United States between 1600 and 1799. Immigration gradually increased after 1820, over 30 million Europeans migrated to America. One in seven died on these migrations. The nation passed its first immigration law in 1875, the Page Act of 1875. The Immigration Act of 1924 was passed to restrict immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, particularly Jews, Italians, and Slavs. 1907 marked the peak year of European immigration with over a million persons entering the country. During the 1930's more people actually emigrated the United States than migrated to it, due to the Great Depression. The Mexican Repatriation program was a program that was intended to encourage people to move to Mexico, however thousands were forced to move against their will. About 400,000 Mexicans were deported during the program. The United States also barred most Jewish refugee who were fleeing the Nazis and World War 2. The Hart-Cellar Act, also known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, was created to abolish the system of national-origin quotas. This caused immigration from non-European countries, which changed the ethnic make-up of America. The immigration Act of 1990 increased legal immigration by 40 percent, which was signed by George H. W. Bush. Bush also signed

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The very next year, in July 4, 1864, the U.S. government approved an act that encouraged immigration by authorizing the federal government to enforce contracts made on foreign soil and sanctioned imported laborers as well (Gyory 20) Properly speaking, the United States welcomed outside immigrants to join the land of freedom at first, nevertheless, this policy eventually was crushed and restrictions on

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During the 1920s Acts were passed in order to limit the number of immigrants entering the country. In the Immigration Act of 1924 quotas for foreigners were cut from three percent to two percent. Restrictions were placed due to concerns over recent years of immigrants contributing to the growing crime and urban problems in the country. Also, immigrants were taking American jobs in the cities because they would work for cheaper which also gave another reason for American to try to limit the number of immigrants coming into the country.

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From this law, a 120,000 annual limit was placed on nations within the Western Hemisphere. “Congress backed the ceiling as a part of a necessary effort to thwart a feared mass migration of Latina/o immigrants to the United States” which dramatically changed the relationship nations in the Western Hemisphere had with the U.S. Until this law, the border between Mexico and the United States was fairly unregulated. These restrictions impacted the economic and social relationship that migrants who traveled across the border had with

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Throughout the 1920 to 1970s, there were shifts in immigration policies that reflect the changes of American ideology; however, there were some aspects that fundamentally remain the same. Main factors that shifted American ideology, which then shifts immigration policies, was the rise of nativism and the aftermath of WWII, yet the classification of wanted and unwanted immigrants was still present. In the 1920s there was an increasing number of immigrants entering the U.S which unsettled most old-stock Americans and led to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment. Congress acted and passed the National Origins Act in 1924. The purpose of the national origins act was to reduce the number of immigrants specifically immigrants coming from southern

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Then to limit Latino immigration a pact named “The Bracero Program” was signed. Many Americans sought to maintain “Ethnic Composition” of the 1870s and therefore limit immigration from countries with fewer or none currently residing immigrants in the US (Lecture 4). American public’s anti-immigrant demands could clearly be seen in the American (“Know Nothing”) Party (the 1850s), and the Red Scares at the end of World War I (“Defining Who We Will Be: U.S. Immigration Policy"). There were similar ongoing issues which forced the Congress to pass the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965.

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From the early 1800 's to the beginning of World War II, approximately 5 million Polish immigrants came to the United States. The Poles fled their country for various reasons. Some emigrants left to escape conscription, others left to seek better opportunities in America, and some fled from religious

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New immigration was not accepted by most citizens although it brought cheap labor to do undesirable jobs in the U.S. People feared radical influences from foreign extremists; people feared the growing Catholic political influence coming from immigrants enter the United States. The Anti- European Act was founded by the Immigration Restriction League. The IRL was founded by a group of Harvard graduates in 1894. The anti-immigrant group shaped a literacy test as a measure to “keep out ‘undesirable classes’ from southern and eastern Europe” from infiltrating the United States.

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Beginning in the early 1800’s, until war was declared in World War I, millions of immigrants arrived in the United States from Russia, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Britain and Ireland. Their labor helped feed the American economy and aided the geographic expansion of the country. During this period under the Naturalization Act of 1790, the U.S. borders were open with no limits on immigration. In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which banned the employment of Chinese workers, marking the first attempt to regulate foreign labor. With the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, thousands upon thousands of migrant workers from Mexico began arriving in the United States.

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Similar to the industrial revolution, Mexicans moved into America during a major world transition, World War I. After the U.S.A. joined the war in Europe, there was a shortage of men to work in America. The people in America welcomed the Mexican immigrants to work in the factories and farms throughout America (Mexican Immigration, n.d.). Then in 1939, World War II began and once again there was a shortage of labor in the United States. Mexicans began to flow into America again searching for work.

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Just getting out of a war, Americans were scared. In the past, immigrants had been accepted and even welcomed, now they were feared and labeled as a danger (The 1920s Government, Politics, and Law: Overview). Americans cried out for a restriction order keeping immigrants out for fear that they would bring foreign elements to America. The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the amount of immigrants to come to America greatly (Congress, U.S.). Although, some Americans were very against the immigration act and Robert Clancy (an American against both the KKK and Republican decisions) even went as far as to call it "un-American" (Rose.

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The Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 terminated the Bracero program, many Mexican migrants relied on. The creator of the Hart-Cellar Act was Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, he wanted to include a long time immigrant activist, Emmanuel Cellar of New York City in his bill. He wrote this bill as immigration reform in 1963 during the Kennedy administration. Due to various reasons it was not signed into law until 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Once the law took effect, the Bracero program was terminated and subsequently put a quota on all immigrants regardless of their geographical location.

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The Red Scare in particular made the entirety of American Society anti immigration. The Red Scare was the growing fear of the U.S. having a rise in Communism. There was also a large concern about the growing amount of immigrants coming into the U.S.. To combat this the U.S. established the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 the act established a limit on the number of immigrants accepted from each country. The U.S. would take 3 percent of the population of residents from the origin country into the U.S. each year.

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The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2) While some argue that illegal immigrants burden the United States of America and its economy, others believe that they have become essential and are an important part of the US, economy.

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Immigration has always been a crucial topic in the United States government. Especially when it comes to giving amnesty and passing an immigration reform to 11 million immigrants, that live in the country. Many citizens believe that immigrants are detrimental to the well-being of the United States and do not agree with the passage of an immigration reform. One reason is that many believe immigrants take away the jobs of American citizens. Other reasons are that immigrants bring crime to the country and affect the economy.

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