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The Immigrants (1977) is a historical novel written by Howard Fast.Set in San Francisco during the early 20th century, it tells the story of Daniel Lavette, a self-described "roughneck" who rises from the ashes of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and becomes one of the most successful and dominating figures in San Francisco.
This film adapts the first two of the four novels (The Emigrants (1949) and Unto a Good Land (1952)), which depict the hardships the emigrants experience in Sweden and on their journey to America. The Emigrants won international acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards.
Most immigrants came long distances to settle in the United States. However, many Irish left Canada for the United States in the 1840s. French Canadians , who moved south from Quebec after 1860, and Mexicans , who came north after 1911, found it easier to move back and forth.
In a 1997 poll by Biblioteket i fokus ("Library in focus"), the series was ranked as the best Swedish book of the 20th century by 27,000 people. [2] In a 1998 poll by Sveriges Television, the series was ranked as the most important Swedish book of all time by 17,000 people. [3]
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America is a 2012 feature-length [1] documentary film based on the book Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, [2] written by journalist Juan González. [3] The film was directed by Peter Getzels and Eduardo López, [4] and premiered in New York and Los Angeles on September 28. [5]
In describing the American identity, Huntington first contests the notion that the country is, as often repeated, "a nation of immigrants". He writes that America's founders were not immigrants, but settlers, since British settlers came to North America to establish a new society, as opposed to migrating from one existing society to another one as immigrants do.
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The U.S. Border Patrol packed Mexican immigrants into trucks when transporting them to the border for deportation during Operation Wetback.. Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and head of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).