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…old. They were, for the most part, recent Italian and European Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States with their families to seek a better life. Instead, they faced lives of grinding poverty and horrifying working conditions. As recent…

…childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir “Angela’s Ashes” of author Frank McCourt. Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's…

…to arrest and deport any alien who is considered to be dangerous. This bill expired in 1800. The Act also made it more difficult for immigrants to become citizens. This was the first law to limit the number of immigrants staying in the United States. Soon…

…with this virtue; I grew up reaping its benefits. My father, along with his four brothers and sisters and my grandparents, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950's from a small village in Italy. My mother was raised in the house adjacent to the tavern her parents owned…

…to protect their craft, rather than as a collective bargaining union. In the mid 19th Century, America was in the middle of the industrial revolution. We were becoming an urban industrial society. Immigration was becoming a great source of labor supply…

…although representation has not surpassed 10%. Population- Venezuela¹s total population as of an 1994 estimate is 20,562,405. The country is primarily made up of immigrants. with only 2% being Amerind, the indigenous Indian groups. The majority group…

…and courage pulled them through and soon thereafter others from England joined them (Rouse 65). Only by heavy immigration had the Virginia Company been able to keep the population figures increasing (Rubin 13). In contrast to the New England colonies, were…

…also used opiates, primarily recent immigrants. In the 1930's, the common belief that immigrants were inhumane and violent included a strong belief that marijuana was part of the cause. Since it was associated with opiates, marijuana was quickly defined…

…as a prison camp guard on his immigration application made it legal for the United States to deport him as an undesirable alien (some three decades after he arrived); however, the case was considered to provide some interesting points of interpretation, since…

…American community was an Arab immigrant by the name of Wallace D. Fard. For his efforts, Fard is credited with establishing the Nation of Islam. In 1930, Fard came to America and began his work as a Muslim missionary, preaching to poor black people in Detroit…