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  2. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    This quota, including acceptance of 55,000 Volksdeutschen, required sponsorship for all immigrants. The American program was the most notoriously bureaucratic of all the DP programs, and much of the humanitarian effort was undertaken by charitable organizations such as the Lutheran World Federation, as well as other ethnic groups. Along with an ...

  3. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    From the 19th century onwards, the geographical origins of immigrants changed. In previous centuries, the British had been the most numerous in the United States, but German immigration overtook British after 1820, [27] [28] and, in Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants, dominant in all previous centuries, were overtaken by the ...

  4. Immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since 2000, legal immigrants to the United States number approximately 1,000,000 per year, of whom about 600,000 are Change of Status who already are in the U.S. Legal immigrants to the United States now [when?] are at their highest level ever, at just over 37,000,000 legal immigrants. In reports in 2005–2006, estimates of illegal immigration ...

  5. These Immigrants Are Building America - AOL

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    Head over to This Built America for the full story on German Coronel and Helmut Bode. ... These Immigrants Are Building America. AOL Jobs Staff. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:18 PM.

  6. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The law changed the preference system for immigrants. Specifically, the law expanded the number of preference classes from 4 to 7, and assigned the first, second, fourth, and fifth preference classes to relatives, relegating immigrants with occupational skills needed in the U.S. workforce to the third and sixth preference classes, and creating ...

  7. Letters: Immigrants helped build America and power the ... - AOL

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    Historically, America was built by immigrants, people who had nothing and needed to work hard to survive. They built economies and families. They contributed to America. Thank goodness for immigrants.

  8. Today's Migrants Are Just like Your Immigrant Great ... - AOL

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    Many recent immigrants are making the same decision, moving to places where it is cheaper to live and easier to achieve the American dream. Allowing people to freely migrate to the U.S. was the ...

  9. List of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.