Immigration trends
Although always being one of the major political issues, the current social interest on immigration even reached at the top in the recent century with the emergence of Trump administration. In the early twentieth century immigrants became the unwanted, and in 1924, Congress fundamentally closed the gates. Without replenishments from abroad, the immigrant masses Americanized, and the degree of hostility and apprehension lessened. In 1965, Congress opened the gates again by passing the Hart-Cellar Act which abolished the discriminatory national-origins quota system. Since then immigrants who could activate kinship ties to U.S. residents or citizens, who possessed special skills, or who were seeking asylum from Communist regimes
Although always being one of the major political issues, the current social interest on immigration even reached at the top in the recent century with the emergence of Trump administration. In the early twentieth century immigrants became the unwanted, and in 1924, Congress fundamentally closed the gates. Without replenishments from abroad, the immigrant masses Americanized, and the degree of hostility and apprehension lessened. In 1965, Congress opened the gates again by passing the Hart-Cellar Act which abolished the discriminatory national-origins quota system. Since then immigrants who could activate kinship ties to U.S. residents or citizens, who possessed special skills, or who were seeking asylum from Communist regimes