There are multiple factors that cause emigration, including war or other social upheaval, lack of employment, economic instability, and natural disasters. There ...

Historical Context: Immigration Policy in World War II | The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt suspended naturalization proceedings ...

Jul 15, 2024 · Perez Jr. is an immigrant and US army veteran who was deported after serving seven years in state prison on a drug charge.

In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The uncertainty generated over national security during World War I made it ...

From 1900 to 1920, nearly 24 million immigrants arrived during what is known as the “Great Wave”. The outbreak of World War I reduced immigration from Europe, ...

In World War I, one out of every five soldiers in the U.S. Armed Forces was an immigrant. For some it was a path to citizenship. For the nation it proved ...

... immigration before the Civil War. Even so, a relatively large group of ... Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 · Rise of Industrial America, 1876 ...

America's restrictive immigration laws reflected the national climate of isolationism, xenophobia, antisemitism, racism, and economic insecurity after World War ...

Jun 24, 2024 · There are other exceptions including, but not limited to, members of the U.S. military who serve in a time of war or declared hostilities.

This blog will chronicle this war on migrants, not only in the borderlands, but also the “virtual border” that follows them wherever they go in the United ...