History of immigration to the United States

case, the border patrol’s objective history. The border enforcements between Mexico and the United States has constantly been changing throughout history, whether it is through their terms of race, class or regional background. In the book, Migra, written by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, an associate professor in the University of California Los Angeles Department of History and director of the department of Public History Initiative, argues how the personal history of Border Patrol workers came to…

There are several things about immigration in the United States that I learned from CORE 102. One of which includes the fact that immigration is a sensitive subject which cannot effectively be solved from one day to the next. Second, involves around the adverse journey that people from Central American have to endure in order to make their way into a great country filled with opportunity. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey”, Nazario recounts the tragedious journey that Enrique had to undergo.…

encounter of immigration, nor will immigration into the United States cease within the 21st century. The United States consists of a large group of individuals who are different from one another in more ways than one. If two Americans were compared today, it would be apparent that they are not entirely “American”, or “white” (Robbins), but there is no doubt that they had to go through similar processes to arrive and assimilate. Upon the discovery of the New World, the United States was…

Welcome member of The United Sates House of Representative’ Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. And thank you for the unanimous attendance of all members today. Good Morning: Rep. Trey Gowdy, Chairman; Rep. Raul Labrador, Vice-Chairman, Rep. Smith, Rep. Lofgren, Rep. King, Rep. Guiterrez, Rep. Buck, Rep. Jackson Lee, Rep. Ratcliffe, Rep. Pierluisi, Rep. Trott (US House of Representative, 2015). Today I am honored to present the resolution to a decade old debate, Immigration. We…

How was immigration in the 1960s similar to that of the 1920s? In class, we learned about the statistics and the facts; however, interviewing a person is different, one can go into their memory, experience and what they went throw. That is the difference between a class and an interview. However, In both can learn something in the past. The person I interviewed was Virginia Maravillas. She was born in 1937 in Mexico City, She has 10 siblings and with her is 11, she is the 4th one. She can be…

Throughout American history, many people around the world have left their countries for a chance to start new lives in this country — and they continue to come here to this day. People who come to live in a new country are referred to as immigrants, who can generally be classified into two categories; legal immigrants or immigrants who have permission to reside and work in the United States, and illegal immigrants or immigrants who arrive illegally or somehow manage to lose their legal status…

back home to a land that could not provide for them as well as the United States can. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the two front runners for the 2016 presidential election, both Mrs.Clinton and…

Numerous amounts of people enter the United States illegally each year. Each year this number only increases and some immigration experts such as Allen Gomez expect to see them approaching the border in massive waves (Gomez). With this information in mind it is important for our nation to explore the effects that these immigrants could have on our economy. In regards to the American economy, some say illegal immigrants are benefiting America, while others believe that they are harming it. People…

of the American people. America needs a president that is compassionate and just and possesses good qualities as a leader. I believe Donald trump is not is not qualified to be the president of the United States because he doesn’t really understand what it means to become the president of the United States, many people have said it such as politicians of both parties, economists, pundits, business leaders but millions of GOP primary voters don 't seem to be listening. The reality is Trump has…

“Hawaii’s “1946 Sakada” is a study by Steffi San Buenaventura that explores the phenomena of Filipino immigrants who migrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar plantation industry. Steffi San Buenaventura begins the study discussing the history of the Filipino immigrants that migrated after World War II in 1946. The word “Sakada” refers to the Filipino men recruited by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association (HSPA), thus referring to the group of Filipino immigrants the “1946 Sakadas”. The central…