immigration

Examples of immigration in the following topics:

• Immigration Reform

  • Immigration reform regards changes to current policy including promoted or open immigration, as well as reduced or eliminated immigration.
  • In the political sense, immigration reform may include promoted, expanded or open immigration.
  • It may also include reduced or eliminated immigration.
  • Proponents of greater immigration enforcement argue that illegal immigrants cost taxpayers an estimated $338.3 billion dollars.
  • The Arizona immigration law directs law enforcement officials to ask for immigration papers on a reasonable suspicion that a person might be an illegal immigrant.

• Immigration Policy

  • In 1924 Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which favored source countries that already had many immigrants in the U.S. and excluded immigrants from unpopular countries.
  • Immigration is also widely used to describe proposals to increase legal immigration while decreasing illegal immigration, such as the guest worker proposal supported by George W.
  • In 2006, the number of immigrants totaled a record 37.5 million.
  • In 2006, 1.27 million immigrants were granted legal residence.
  • The Arizona immigration law directs law enforcement officials to ask for immigration papers on a reasonable suspicion that a person might be an illegal immigrant and make arrests for not carrying ID papers.

• Twenty-First-Century Americans

  • These issues are exacerbated by the scale at which immigration occurs.
  • By 1910, 13.5 million immigrants were living in the United States.
  • By equalizing immigration policies, the act resulted in new immigration from non-European nations, which changed the ethnic make-up of the United States.
  • This further increased legal immigration to the United States by 40%.
  • Until the 1930s, most legal immigrants were male.

• Immigration and Border Security

  • Though immigration to the United States has been a major source of economic growth and cultural change throughout American history, the recent discourse surrounding immigration deals mostly with illegal immigration.
  • The illegal immigrant population in the United States in 2008 was estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies to be about 11 million people, down from 12.5 million people in 2007.
  • Illegal immigrants who come generally for economic opportunities or to escape political oppression, continue to outpace the number of legal immigrants - a trend that has held steady since the 1990s.
  • The challenge of illegal immigration is closely linked with that of border security, the concept of which is related to the persistent threat of terrorism.
  • Rate of immigration to the United States relative to sending countries' population size, 2001–2005

• Civil Rights of Immigrants

  • In the United States, immigration has a long and complex history.
  • While there is general political debate surrounding immigration, the bulk focuses on Latinos.
  • This trend is largely due to the high socio-economic status of Asian immigrants — compared to other groups, Asian immigrants tend to be well-educated, and second-generation Asian-Americans immigrants tend to have high incomes and educational attainment.
  • Latino immigrants, on the other hand, comprise a poorer, less-educated population.
  • While illegal immigration is the most controversial issue in American politics, immigrants who enter the country legally also face civil rights challenges.

• Illegal Immigration

  • Illegal immigrants continue to outpace the number of legal immigrants—a trend that's held steady since the 1990s.
  • The majority of these illegal immigrants are from Mexico.
  • Illegal immigrants work in many sectors of the U.S. economy.
  • Illegal immigrants have lower incomes than both legal immigrants and native-born Americans, but earnings do increase somewhat the longer an individual is in the country.
  • Describe the nature and scope of illegal immigration in the United States

• Civil Rights of Latinos

  • The United States has long been a nation with a large immigrant population, but immigration policies have varied throughout the country's history.
  • By the 1960's, immigration was seen as a civil rights issue.
  • It removed national-origin quotas from immigration law.
  • Since the Civil Rights Era legislation that made Latino immigration possible, debates about immigration law have remained controversial.
  • While many Mexican and Latino immigrants enter the country legally, particularly through family reunification policies, a substantial number do not have legal-immigrant status — an estimated 700,000 new immigrants per year.

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • People of Asian descent began immigrating to the United States in significant numbers in the late 1800s.
  • As of 1868, U.S. policy encouraged Chinese immigration.
  • These policies effectively curbed immigration for several decades.
  • This bill overturned laws setting immigration quotas, opening the borders to increasing immigration from Asia and Latin America.
  • That said, Asian American immigrants have diverse ethnic backgrounds, with large immigrant populations arriving from China, Korea, and India, for example.

• Latinos

  • The US has comparatively low rates of naturalization for immigrant residents.
  • However, in recent years, a larger number of organizations that serve immigrant and Latino communities have become involved in political participation .
  • Organizations serving immigrant communities are starting to encourage more political participation, including voting.

• The End of Affirmative Action?

  • Continuous mass immigration was a feature of the United States economy and society since the first half of the 19th century.
  • The absorption of the stream of immigrants became, in itself, a prominent feature of America's national myth.
  • The idea of the Melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention