U.S. Immigration and Migration

The enactment of the Hart-Celler Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) and the Simpson-Mazzoli Act (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986) impacted on the immigration trends to the...

Of these options, the first option is the best. This comes about because of something that is known as chain migration. The process of chain migration starts when one person or a few people from a...

If you are talking about immigration to the United States, the LPC clause came from a law that was passed in 1882, not in 1912. The acronym “LPC” stands for “liable to become a public charge.”...

The main impact of the Vietnam War on immigration to the United States had to do with an increase in immigration from Vietnam and the surrounding areas. During the Vietnam War, the United States,...

First of all, we must note that every immigrant group has assimilated “to one degree or another” since that could cover everything from complete assimilation to almost zero assimilation. Thus, you...

The immigrants who came largely from Europe during the period that you are asking about in this question encountered many problems. They typically encountered economic problems. These problems...

One the one hand, we can say that America is clearly more of a “salad bowl” than it was in, for example, the 1950s. In the 1950s, there were not many unassimilated immigrants. Today, we have many...

Illegal immigration has impacted American thinking on immigration mostly in negative ways. That is, Americans have become somewhat less inclined to support immigration in general as they have come...

There are two other countries whose debates on immigration are relatively familiar to me. These are Japan and Singapore. There are at least two major differences between our debates and theirs....

Beginning in the time of the California Gold Rush, and continuing until the ban on such immigration in the 1880s, many Chinese people came to the United States as immigrants. The bulk of them came...

I think that a very strong argument can be made that one of the most painful casualties of the September 11 Attacks was immigration reform and the perception of the immigration issue. The instant...

At least officially, it is not really accurate to say that we accept all people who want to come to our shores in the way that Emma Lazarus’s poem suggests that we do. This was much truer at the...

In my opinion, people who think that bilingualism is going to permanently divide America ignore both history and social science. Looking at the evidence from history, there is no reason to think...

The main reason for this is that these two groups are in very different situations and therefore have different interests. When immigrants first come to the US, they often want to take any job they...

This article was written in 2010. The author of the article was lamenting what he saw as a rising tide of hatred toward Islam as a faith and towards Muslims as individuals. He argued that the...

In general, while economic conditions have not been the only thing that has affected our attitudes towards immigrants and our policies toward them, we have generally been less welcoming to...

While it is impossible to know for sure what will happen, it appears that it is very likely that immigration reform will pass. The reason for this is that the Republican Party, which has been very...

Since the founding of the United States, there have been three main waves of immigration. These waves have consisted of different types of people and have occurred in different circumstances....

In a debate, an opening statement must set out the basics of your argument. It must let the audience know what side you are taking in the debate and it must give a number of arguments for your...