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The peak year of European immigration was in 1907, when 1,285,349 persons entered the country.[19] By 1910, 13.5 million immigrants were living in the United States.[20] In 1921, the Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European settlements from the start of colonization of America until their incorporation into the United States. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America. Small early attempts—such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke—often disappeared; everywhere the death rate of the first arrivals was very high. Nevertheless successful colonies were established. European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups. No aristocrats settled permanently, but a number of adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived. Diversity was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the "worthy poor" of Georgia, came to the new continent and built colonies with distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles. Occasionally one colony took control of another (during wars between their European parents). Only in Nova Scotia (now part of Canada) did the conquerors expel the previous colonists. Instead they all lived side by side in peace. There were no major civil wars among the 13 colonies, and the two chief armed rebellions (in Virginia in 1676 and in New York in 1689–91) were short-lived failures. Wars between the French and the British—the French and Indian Wars and Father Rale's War—were recurrent, and involved French-support for Wabanaki Confederacy attacks on the frontiers. By 1760 France was defeated and the British seized its colonies.
No, but as a nation, we are a nation of immigrants, because practically everyone is decendant of immigrants. I am sorry if you are offended by this fact.
Doesn't make Americans born here immigrants. We are Americans. What does your passport say?
No, we are either one or the other. When this nation was originally founded we were a nation of immigrants. Now we are a nation of Americans. That our ancestors came here as immigrants is irrelevant to what we are today. Citizens born here are not immigrants by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh, bs.
This nation has had immigrants and immigration non-stop since it was founded, and it never once stopped.
The ONLY people who haven't been immigrants, were First Nation people.
As to the fact that they traveled, SO DID YOUR ANCESTORS, since evolution has proven that all of us originated in Africa. However, unless you wish to get into a discussion of evolutionary migrations, and how your ancestors MIGRATED from AFRICA to EUROPE 1,800,000 years ago, and Asians migrated across the Bering Straits to this land 38,000 years ago, I'd stick to something a little more reasonable in time.
As it is, First Nation people, who migrated here approximately 38,000 years ago were the first people to inhabit this land. Your people were not the first. You were immigrants to a land that was already populated. Your people were spongers/freeloaders here.
Aren't European politicians now saying that multiculturalism in their respective countries is a failure? I seem to remember complaints that immigrants do not assimilate, rather they stay in the ghettos for generations.
So far it seems only the USA can claim to be a melting pot. If we were to hand out citizenship like candy why don't we hand it out to smart, highly educated and motivated people? Plenty of Russians, Chinese, and Indians can fill up the USA.
I think the STEM program for immigrants is attempting to do just that by offering foreign students who graduate in science and engineering the opportunity to stay in the U.S. so that our economy benefits from their valuable skills. Such as:
---Immigrants’ productivity raises the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by an estimated $37 billion per year
---- More than a quarter of U.S. technology and engineering businesses launched between 1995 and 2005 had a foreign-born founder
----In Silicon Valley, more than half of new tech start-up companies were founded by foreignborn owners
----In 2005, companies founded by immigrants produced $52 billion in sales and employed 450,000 workers
I know Canada has an emphasis on allowing in immigrants who are highly educated and have economic resources to enter their country and that has worked out very well for them.
Yes. But there's a difference between illegal and legal immigration. Most Americans today are native-born, but recently the government is allowing invaders to invade.
This nation has had immigrants and immigration non-stop since it was founded, and it never once stopped.
The ONLY people who haven't been immigrants, were First Nation people.
As to the fact that they traveled, SO DID YOUR ANCESTORS, since evolution has proven that all of us originated in Africa. However, unless you wish to get into a discussion of evolutionary migrations, and how your ancestors MIGRATED from AFRICA to EUROPE 1,800,000 years ago, and Asians migrated across the Bering Straits to this land 38,000 years ago, I'd stick to something a little more reasonable in time.
As it is, First Nation people, who migrated here approximately 38,000 years ago were the first people to inhabit this land. Your people were not the first. You were immigrants to a land that was already populated. Your people were spongers/freeloaders here.
Has any other country completely closed their border?
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