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Immigration Restriction: A Study of the Opposition to and Regulation of Immigration into the United States
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Subjects: Emigration And Immigration Law--United States, United States--Emigration And Immigration
...German paupers. Everett, in which the disadvantages of immigration are set forth. Many of the stock arguments of today are well set forth here...of the Irish adhered. It was at this period in our history that so many Irish Catholics were coming to our country...a part of some European Society, they were in many states invested with the franchise, and the whole administration...in 1841. The Native American Association of the United States, which was formed in Washington in 1837, sought...Federal Governments, and to procure a repeal of the naturalization law. The association planned the publication of a...
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Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Book by Lucy E. Salyer; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Administrative Discretion--United States--History, Chinese--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States--History, Emigration And Immigration Law--United States--History, United States--Bureau Of Immigration And Naturalization--History
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A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States
Book by Uma A. Segal; Columbia University Press, 2002
Subjects: Asian Americans--Government Policy, Asian Americans--Services For, Asian Americans--Social Conditions, United States--Emigration And Immigration--Government Policy
A FRAMEWORK FOR IMMIGRATION A FRAMEWORK FOR IMMIGRATION Asians in the United States Uma A. Segal Columbia University Press New York...Copyright 2002 Uma Anand Segal All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Segal, Uma Anand...origin or of immigration. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on the history of the homelands of Asian immigrants, with particular...
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...Lauck: The Immigration Problem , pp...Reports of the Industrial...constitutional history of the United States was written...Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, p. 234 . 3 The claim of the pessimists...workman in the United States is to-day no...a reversion of the United States to the old doctrine...underlying the free immigration policy of the...
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Post-1965 Immigration to the United States: Structural Determinants
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Toward a Comprehensive Response to the Transnational Migration of Unaccompanied Minors in the United States
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Unauthorized Immigration to the United States
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...The Reactions of Black Americans to Immigration," in Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, ed., Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 293-314. These fears may be unwarranted. Recent...had any significant negative impact on the employment situation of African Americans. See Robert D. Reischauer, "Immigration and the Underclass," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 501 (1989):120-31. Yet...state of local governments. See Eric S. Rothman and Thomas J. Espenshade, "Fiscal Impacts of Immigration to the United States," Population Index 58 (3) (1992): 381-415. However, these conclusions themselves should be seen as tentative given...antithesis which must inevitably remain a constant source of social unrest. The `lawlessness of judges in deciding the law and the unlawful enforcement of the law by policemen are pivotal in the racial system. The social anomaly
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Woe Is the Politics of Immigration
Magazine article by James W. Thomson; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 136, November 2007
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Woe Is the Politics of Immigration. by James W. Thomson ILLUSTRATION OMITTED IN THE MID 1960s, Congress passed a series of extraordinary laws intended to guarantee the civil...scarcely any public debate or fanfare--the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. Since its passage, this immigration law...most populous country. According to a recent Census Bureau study, by 2100, the U.S. may have twice as many people...professor of political science at Harvard University, who states that dealing with immigration will prove to be the...hordes, to Pierre Lallouche, who proclaimed in 1991, "History, proximity, and poverty ensure that France and Europe...
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Our New Immigration Predicament
Magazine article by Steven Camarota; The American Enterprise, Vol. 11, December 2000
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law--United States, Immigrants--Demographic aspects, United States--Emigration and immigration
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...country and as individuals. The government of the United States is asking the people to be brave as we go forth and...occupying a new homeland-security post. "There is a time of high danger here at home." But will this exhortation...missiles. The FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and the civilian...moved into the DHS, for example, the much-maligned Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which is responsible for screening...espionage cases, and the worst case of treason in its history. "The events of Sept. 11 marked a turning point for...
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Stealth Invasion: Working through Its Consulates in the United States, the Mexican Government Is Waging a War of Subversion against Our Nation-With the Silent Complicity of Washington
Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 20, April 5, 2004
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...Republican Partys leadership and the direct intervention of the Mexican government, HB 109 was defeated. Remarkable...Mexican consulates to Mexicans without regard to their immigration status. (Segura himself, who has never lived in Mexico...the consulate of a foreign nation to interfere in our states political process, and vilify Utah citizens who are...others who obey our laws and patiently work through our naturalization system, she has found herself pushed to the back of...drawing heavily on groups such as MALDEF, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Hispanic Chamber...an unstoppable invasion, the most important in human history," wrote columnist Carlos Loret de Mola for Mexico Citys...
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Magazine article by G. Pascal Zachary; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 30, Summer 2006
Subjects: Africans--Emigration and immigration, Africans--Social aspects, Foreign visitors--Forecasts and trends, Foreign visitors--Social aspects, United States--Emigration and immigration, Visitors, Foreign--Forecasts and trends, Visitors, Foreign--Social aspects
...immigrants--an estimated 150,000--have come to the United States from Nigeria than from any other sub-Saharan country...Though these numbers reflect both legal and illegal immigration, they seem to undercount Africans in the United States. No matter what the actual number is, Africans are a tiny part, a mere 2.8 percent, of the foreign-born population legally in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yet the significance of these new African immigrants...year. Because of the central role of slavery in American history and the still-vexing problem of black-white relations...
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 13, 2006
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law, Immigrants, Immigration law, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
...By 2005, about 10 million illegal aliens lived in the United States - more than triple the number of IRCA amnesty recipients, triple the illegal alien population in 1980 and twice the level of illegal immigration in 1996. The several mass amnesties over the last two decades...or more. This would reduce illegal immigration, too, if history serves as guide. We already allot more than a million immigrant...
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At a Crossroad; Reform Immigration Policy
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 16, 2008
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law, Immigration policy, United States economic conditions
...One-time amnesty would be granted for people illegally in the United States. All three promises were broken. The government has made...were in 1986. And we are now facing yet another flurry of amnesty proposals. Todays popular anger with the elites...Simpson-Mazzoli bill. There is a clear path to an effective immigration solution that is better for America and better for immigrants...American is on the issue of American civilization, American history, and English as the official language of government. Elites...
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Immigration Reform Sought Illinois Activists Say Congress Must Act Quickly
Newspaper article by Michael Puente; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 27, 2006
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Reforming Immigration; We Must Respect the Rule of Law
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 19, 2006
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law, Immigrants, Immigration law
...needs and desire to make lives for themselves in the United States, is the need of the United States to form American citizens, and protect its border...Republicans who are taking a beating over the failure to craft an immigration bill, an interesting sidelight on this whole debate is...the United States is a success story like none other in history as far as immigration is concerned. No other country has...
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FBI Fears INS Let in 100,000 Criminals: Naturalization Push Scrutinized
Newspaper article by Ruth Larson; The Washington Times, October 24, 1996
Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Wilson, Pete
...histories have become citizens since August 1995, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service began its push to naturalize 1.3 million new citizens. "Historically, 8 to 10 percent of the INS submissions are identified with an existing record...search could identify approximately 100,000 criminal history records." While the FBIs records do not necessarily...Republican Governors Association, worried that their states might also be affected by the problem. A congressional...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
UNITED STATES officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227...hydroelectricity and irrigation water by such agencies as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the...coast, numerous other national groups were introduced by immigration. Large numbers of Africans were transported in chains under...formally chooses the President and the Vice President. History European Exploration and Settlement Exploration...
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Naturalization
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...all unindentured white males who had lived in the United States for two years might become citizens. The period of residence was lengthened to five years in 1795 and...amended, 1965) revised and recodified the entire body of immigration and naturalization regulations. By the terms of this act, declarations...Supreme Court decisions. The act is administered by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Dept...conferring of citizenship at various times in U.S. history on the populace of Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...
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...1974). In 1971, Ulbricht resigned as first secretary of the SED and was replaced by Erich Honecker . Under Honecker...status in 1972, East Germany was made a full member of the United Nations in 1973. Later in 1973, Stoph was elected chairman...Germany, 95,742 sq mi (247,973 sq km), consisted of the ten states that had been included in the U.S., British, and French...president in 1999, and that same year Germany adopted a new immigration law making it easier for its many foreign residents to...Bibliography The chief source collection for medieval German history is the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Of the writings...
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Italy
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...centers of N Italy and to the Americas. The outstanding statesmen of the pre-Fascist period were Agostino Depretis , Francesco...by an increasing population were aggravated by drastic immigration restrictions in the United States and by the economic depression of the 1930s...Renaissance . For the modern period, see B. King, A History of Italian Unity (2 vol., 1924, repr. 1967); D. M. Smith...
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