61 million, that is the number of immigrants currently residing in the United States (Ziegler). For the past year, there has been a great deal of negativity surrounding incoming immigrants, recent immigrants, and immigration in general. These attitudes were made more prevalent when the newly elected president, Donald Trump, instituted an executive order to temporarily ban entrance to the United States to seven Muslim-majority countries (Trump). This ban was eventually lifted by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Liptak). Although in the United States, there continues to be negative stigmas around immigration and allowing immigrants into the U.S., immigrants greatly benefit and contribute to the United States by improving the economy, creating
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Many Chinese workers migrated to the U.S. around the 1850s and as more came, more of them began taking jobs in factories, agriculture, and in the gold mines. With the increase of Chinese workers along came negative anti-Chinese sentiments (Chinese Immigration). Many of the migrants came for economic opportunity. The Chinese workforce began growing widely, but it came at the cost of protest against their immigration. The opposition against the workers had to do with economic and cultural tensions. Americans required higher wages to support their families and they also held the position in society to be able to negotiate wages. Chinese immigrants did not have this same opportunity and often times were able to win out the Americans to work. This began social tensions which the California state government responded by issuing different measures to prevent the Chinese from receiving naturalization. This ultimately led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Chinese Immigration). The Chinese Exclusion Act helped prevent the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S. and made it difficult for them to become citizens. This act is one of many, and certainly not the last of America’s anti immigrant …show more content…
But still 135 years later in March of 2017 in the United States yet another ban against not one, but many nations was recently signed. After only being in office for seven days President Trump signed an executive order which prohibited the entry of refugees for 120 days and people coming from seven Muslim majority countries for three months (Trump). President Trump banned entire countries to protect the United States from supposed terrorism. This ban caused quite an outcry from people all over the country who did not agree and in turn protested at various airports and other locations against it. The ban ultimately brought opposition and more tension to an already divided country on issues of immigration and refugees. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stopped Trump’s travel ban but things did not end there. (Liptak). After President Trump’s first travel ban was put to a stop, once again, he attempted to reinstate a new order that this time only banned six Muslim majority nations. But hours before the second executive order was set to take effect, it was blocked. Two judges from the federal courts temporarily blocked the executive order to decide first whether it was constitutional (Trump’s new). After only a week of administration, the new president felt it was necessary to ban seven countries and refugees from America’s borders. Something that was not only unconstitutional the first time, but unnecessary and did
Many Chinese workers migrated to the U.S. around the 1850s and as more came, more of them began taking jobs in factories, agriculture, and in the gold mines. With the increase of Chinese workers along came negative anti-Chinese sentiments (Chinese Immigration). Many of the migrants came for economic opportunity. The Chinese workforce began growing widely, but it came at the cost of protest against their immigration. The opposition against the workers had to do with economic and cultural tensions. Americans required higher wages to support their families and they also held the position in society to be able to negotiate wages. Chinese immigrants did not have this same opportunity and often times were able to win out the Americans to work. This began social tensions which the California state government responded by issuing different measures to prevent the Chinese from receiving naturalization. This ultimately led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Chinese Immigration). The Chinese Exclusion Act helped prevent the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S. and made it difficult for them to become citizens. This act is one of many, and certainly not the last of America’s anti immigrant …show more content…
But still 135 years later in March of 2017 in the United States yet another ban against not one, but many nations was recently signed. After only being in office for seven days President Trump signed an executive order which prohibited the entry of refugees for 120 days and people coming from seven Muslim majority countries for three months (Trump). President Trump banned entire countries to protect the United States from supposed terrorism. This ban caused quite an outcry from people all over the country who did not agree and in turn protested at various airports and other locations against it. The ban ultimately brought opposition and more tension to an already divided country on issues of immigration and refugees. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stopped Trump’s travel ban but things did not end there. (Liptak). After President Trump’s first travel ban was put to a stop, once again, he attempted to reinstate a new order that this time only banned six Muslim majority nations. But hours before the second executive order was set to take effect, it was blocked. Two judges from the federal courts temporarily blocked the executive order to decide first whether it was constitutional (Trump’s new). After only a week of administration, the new president felt it was necessary to ban seven countries and refugees from America’s borders. Something that was not only unconstitutional the first time, but unnecessary and did