Immigrants And Immigration

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Post-colonial, blacks and Indians, immigrants from another counties faced hard times with white because white U.S. culture and society makes it difficult for them to assess the power, location, and achievements of these early immigrants and their many millions of descendants. Growing population of immigrants often clashing with whites and their beliefs.

2. When and how did changing immigration laws bar certain racial or ethnic groups from entry into the United States?

In mid 1960s, immigration legislation was passed by the congress with provisions to restrict the non-European, immigration to the United States. Before the legislation, Asian immigrants are likely subjected to exclude from certain labor by racial hostility and often are ineligible

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