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Immigration
Title: Immigration
Category: History
Details: Words: 305 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Immigration
This quote “Americans have always had mixed feelings about newcomers, as this history of U.S. immigration laws shows”, describes the attitude toward immigration since 1607. Many Americans believed that we are “a nation of immigrants” and have tried to accept that. Instead many people have lashed out against immigration. This statement is a perfect description of the feeling towards the new immigrants. One example of the feelings is that the Americans feared that the immigrants …showed first 75 words of 305 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 305 total…immigrants. Many riots also resulted from the immigration. The hatred grew so much that it turned into violent mobs that attacked businesses of immigrants. Another example is the Daughters of the American Revolution’s decision to turn away 20,000 German refuges children from entering the U.S. to escape Hitler. The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, allowing only 153,714 newcomers from Europe each year, showed that the U.S. was trying hard to slow down the flow of immigrants.
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