\"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\" These are the hopeful, inspiring words inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. There is a broken chain that lies at her feet symbolizing freedom. She stands tall welcoming immigrants from around the world to t...

I read an article on immigration called \"Our Rainbow Underclass\" by Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The 9/11 ceremonies made the author think about the multi-ethnic nature of US society. Among the victims were people origins from all over the world, that plot was not only against the Americans. The author ...

Since the beginning there was always something for everyone in America. Weather it were a good factor about the U.S. or a bad factor about their country something always encouraged people to come here.United States as a country was created by immigrants and their difference from any other country in...

What makes the United States of America different from any other country in the world? The one thing is that most all of the people that live here are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Immigrants are people who left their own country to make a new home in another country. Immigrants built ...

Reasons for ImmigrationComing from a life of poverty and despair would cause anyone to search for a better life; a life in which there is the belief that all of your dreams can come true. This is the belief that many Mexican immigrants had about "El Norte," they believed that the north would provid...

Does the United States benefit from immigrants in the 1990's? For manyreasons the United States does not benefit from immigrants right at this momentin time. The United States is having it's largest surge of immigrants since thestates became united. Who knows what will stop these immigrants frome...

Bernard A. Weisberg refers in his article's title to the United States as a "Nation of Immigrants" rather than a unique, ancient grounded nation. As Joe R. Feagin states in his "Racial and Ethnic Relations" textbook: "Immigration in the United States is its f...

Fruits and Flowers of ImmigrationChildren seem to be the primary issue for both those individuals who are making decision to immigrate and those institutions that deciding on whether to accept somebody or not as immigrants. At least it should be so, because down the road the fate of immigrant child...

Immigration has played a major part historically in the growth of Canada's population. Between 1901 and 1911 alone, Canada received over 1.5 million immigrants, representing 28 percent of Canada's total population at the time. Recently, however, Canada's immigration policies and pract...

Canada is currently one of the most prominent host of immigrants in the world. In fact, Canada is the leading country that accepts people from all over the globe. There are approximately 250,000 people immigrating to Canada each year which is about 0.8 percent of Canada's total population. ...

Beware! America is being invaded by aliens! Not the little, green, martian type you see in science fiction movies, but the real thing. I am talking about the illegal type who come in every day and every night, by land and by sea. Estimates have shown that as many as 500,000 illegal aliens make it ac...

Illegal Immigration and the Economy Illegal immigration has become one of the key political issues of the 1990s, especially in border states such as California. The Bureau of the Census estimates that there are now 4 million illegal aliens living in the United States and that about 300,000 mor...

The issue of immigration has become a major debate for everyone. Although critics argued of negative impacts of immigrants such as overcrowding, drug trafficking and threatening of American culture, immigrants still have a great impact in our society. Immigrants cause an impact in our society politi...

The Book Immigrant Voices by Thomas Dublin is focused on giving readers a close view of what things were like for immigrants between the years of 1773-1986. It contains diaries, letters, autobiographies, and interviews of actual immigrants during this time period. The book tells many facts a...

In many urban centers with a significant immigrant population, networks of community membership tend to follow ethnic lines. This phenomenon is sometimes explained as a failure of integration on the part of immigrants. This perceived failure is then viewed as evidence of the inherently problematic n...

The Immigrants Experience In America1.During the peak period of the pre-Civil War immigration, from 1847 through 1857, 3.3 million immigrants entered the United States; 1.3 million were from Ireland and 1.1 million came from the German States. Most immigrants came essentially because of poor economi...

The 19th century was a time of rapid growth and change in America. It was a century of Westward expansion, and the building up of new cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee. It was a time where people from far off places packed up their belongings and sought out new opportunities as they immi...

Multiculturalism, Immigration and their relationship with the Welfare StateIssues concerning immigration within the Swedish Welfare state require a certain amount of individual pioneering on Sweden's part. The policies that work for other countries cannot be applied in the same manner. Since Swede...

Immigration is an event that has been occurring in New York since the 1624 when the Dutch West India Company assembled thirty families from Holland to established a settlement that became known as New Netherland. Many immigrants came to our nation looking for opportunities that their country could n...

Nobody knows that in a quiet city of Moose Jaw lies a secret that has been denied by the city officials for more than 75 years. A network of tunnels located under our sleepy city holds dark stories of Canada\'s past. There are a lot of questions as to why it was built and who used them. It was belie...

"With a 3.2 grade-point average, a letter of admission to the University of Utah, and $4000 in scholarships, she seemed to have everything she needed to succeed. Except, it turned out, a Social Security number" (Marklein 1). Many families in the United States struggle to send their child...

Social Policy IMMIGRANTS' BENEFITS CONTINUE TO BE STICKING POINT IN HOUSE WELFARE DEBATEEfforts to restore aid to legal immigrants cut in 1996 have polarized members of Congress despite political benefitsRepublicans are sending an update of welfare law to the House floor that promises a modest incre...

The popular initiative process has played a role in the evolution of a stronger state presence in local affairs. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the California Constitution was modified with a series of measures approved by the voters that reflected the \"progressive\" mood of the times, ...

Many countries in the Middle East have attracted the attention of the western world in the past. This caused most of them to be invaded over the years. As a result of the invasion and colonization of the Middle Eastern countries, many westerners used to settle down in these countries. After decades ...

Thomas Bell's Out of this Furnace is the story of a three generation struggle to find better lives in the United States. Beginning in the 1880s with the first generation and Djuro Kracha, it continues up until the 1930s with Dobie Dobrejcak's success in unionizing steel workers. Telling...