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In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political refugees had special status. Numerical restrictions ended in 1965. In recent years, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States have come from Asia and Central America (see Central American crisis).
The United States Immigration Commission (also known as the Dillingham Commission after its chairman, Republican Senator William P. Dillingham, was a bipartisan special committee formed in February 1907 by the United States Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt, to study the origins and consequences of recent immigration to the United States. [1]
The 1952 Act established a simple 4-class preference system within quotas, reserving first preference for immigrants of special skills or abilities needed in the U.S. workforce, and allotting the second, third, and fourth preferences to relatives of U.S. citizens and resident aliens. [21]
By 1970, immigrants accounted for 4.7 percent of the US population and rising to 6.2 percent in 1980, with an estimated 12.5 percent in 2009. [159] As of 2010, 25% of US residents under age 18 were first- or second-generation immigrants. [160]
America: The Story of Us (also internationally known as America: The Story of the U.S.) [2] is a 12-part, 9-hour documentary-drama television miniseries [3] that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History. [4]
This migration was vastly different from the previous booms due to the influx of non-western European and non-Protestant individuals, which made the split between the "new" and "old" immigrants much larger. [2] In the 1880s, over 5.2 million immigrants came to the United States, with many of these people staying in New York City.
The Martin Scorsese-produced documentary reminds us that the frenzied response to the group’s arrival changed the trajectory of America, music, and the world. 'Beatles '64' Unravels One of Music ...
Anna "Annie" Moore (April 24, 1874 – December 6, 1924) was an Irish émigré who was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor. Bronze statues of Moore, created by Irish sculptor Jeanne Rynhart, are located at Cobh in Ireland and Ellis Island. [3]