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…usually live in clusters, minimally interfering with outsiders; taking this into mind, however, many immigrants are still amazed by the high level of tolerance America holds. Our tolerance comes from the fact that so many ethnic groups arrived here during…

…economy and severe overpopulation drove hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans to cross illegally into Honduras seeking work. In 1969, allegations of Honduran mistreatment of Salvadoran immigrants were raised just as a World Cup soccer match between the two…

…hunger still lingered about. Do to immigration laws hungry Japanese could not get to other countries that had more room. The only option left seemed to be to expand and gain more territory. China was an obvious target. Nanking was a city surrounded…

…in the central Chile region. It was named Santiago. In 1810 Chile broke free from Spain. Independence was official in 1818. In the 19th century Chile made great social and econamic progress. Immigration doubled the population. The mining boom began in 1860 when…

…the girls lived. Sometimes eight girls had to share one room. In 1836, 1,500 factory girls went on strike to protest wage cuts. (The girls called their action a "turn out.") But it was useless. Desperately poor immigrants were beginning to arrive…

…. Sometimes eight girls had to share one room. In 1836, 1,500 factory girls went on strike to protest wage cuts. (The girls called their action a "turn out.") But it was useless. Desperately poor immigrants were beginning to arrive in the United States from…

…Syrup, to stop further immigration of Eastern Jews on the grounds that their presence stirred up anti-Semitism. Not until 1936, with Hindenburg dead and Hitler in sole command, was persecution seriously escalated. On September 13, during…

…and looked to the city for economic gain. Others were immigrants from other countries who left their homeland behind to find a better life. Many of these people had nowhere to go, so they followed their first instinct and moved to the cities to find work…

…in their homelands came here to begin new lives, and eventually a new nation. The ethnic groups that came in a great flood of immigrants came to escape the economic oppression of their homelands. Those groups, too, found a way to become part of the American…

…Ronald Reagan called for "routine" AIDS testing of prisoners, marriage license applicants, immigrants, and possibly some hospital patients. His purpose was only to identify carriers of the disease; no comment concerning the criminalization of the transmission…