Immagration Issues And Its History

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ming to America. Some sought freedom to worship, others searched for gold or other forms of wealth, and many were dragged here in chains against their will (Plesser, 3). This was only the beginning. The flow of immigrants into the United States would stay on a steadily increasing pace from this point. The United States encouraged immigration during its first century of existence. Immigrants came into the United States by the multitudes to work in the fields of the farms and to help clear the new frontier. The United States was on the verge of its largest expansion of its history. People were needed to do the work so immigrants were welcomed and many took up the offer of the chance of freedom in the New World. There were only a few immigrants in 1820. Only 8,000 immigrants entered into the United States. Then, the number began to rise slowly, an increase that would continue, with ebbs and flows, for almost a century. From 1820 to 1920, over 51 million Immigrants entered America. One of the first attempts to slow the migration rate was the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1882. In 1882, Congress passed the ‘first genera...