Immigration in America

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The 1880s to the 1920s was the peak of immigration in the United States. More economic opportunities was the main reason people migrated to the United States from other countries. There was more opportunities to have a better life in America than the other countries people were migrating from. Around that time America received over 20 million immigrants. Immigration slowly started to decrease because of the great depression in the 1930s, but during the1965 things started to progress. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was enacted. The act took away “quotas” that were based on nationalities. In the early 2000 and so on, immigration and foreign-born population started to increase more and more.  

Today, immigration has become a big issue in the United States especially because of the recent presidential election. Trump had an executive order that prohibits refugees from coming to the United States, he wants to build a wall along the southern border, and he also issued a travel ban that would affect six Muslim countries. Those countries are Syria, Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. It seems like today, America is making it pretty difficult for people from foreign countries to travel and enter the United States.



Links: 
http://www.history.com/topics/u-s-immigration-before-1965 

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2014/10/23/59040/the-facts-on-immigration-today-3/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/24/trump-refugee-ban-end-immigration-executive-order 

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