ork, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
             The Peak Years of immigration occurred between the years 1900-1920. The United States sees more than 14 million immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. In addition, the first large wave of Mexican immigrants arrives in California to work on farms and railroads.
             As we come into the present day, today's immigrants, about 80 percent, come from poor countries in Latin America and Asia. More than 50 percent of all illegal immigrants come from Mexico.
             Many come for the same reasons they did in the early 1900's, and before; poverty, war, persecution, unemployment and to be with family. The causes really have not changed at all, but the nationalities have changed.
             In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 eliminated quotas based on nationality, and established new quotas designed to achieve three primary goals; reunite families, open America's doors to refugees, and attract skilled and talented immigrants. The only reason I know this is because my father was an Immigrant from Egypt while I had the luxary of being born in the states, thus I was put on the stand to ask for my father to live with me. The act set a limit of 290,000 immigrants annually, 170,000 from the Eastern hemisphere and 120,000 from the Western hemisphere. Vietnamese and Cambodians of 130,000 were under special quota exemptions, and by 1990, 600,000 Indo-Chinese refugees lived in the United States.
             In September 1996, Congress made it more expensive for United States citizens, who are former immigrants, to sponsor family members who want to immigrate to the United States. It also provided funds to double the size of the US Border Patrol, and $12 million for updated technology, including a 14 mile-long border fence south of San Diego, California. The Welfare Reform Bill put restrictions and limits on many federal benefits, food stamps and supplemental security
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