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The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) [1] [2] was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Reformers during this era, known as Progressives , sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization , urbanization , immigration , and political corruption , as well as the ...
Thus began the first and longest era of immigration that lasted until the American Revolution in 1775. Settlements grew from initial English toeholds from the New World to British America. It brought Northern European immigrants, primarily of British, German, and Dutch extraction.
The most recent major immigration reform enacted in the United States, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants, while also legalizing some 2.7 million undocumented residents who entered the United States before 1982. The law did not provide a legal way for the great number of low ...
2013 — With President Barack Obama in the White House, a bipartisan group of senators, nicknamed the Gang of 8, negotiated an immigration reform bill that was approved in the Senate. The bill ...
FILE - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, speaks of immigration reform legislation outlined by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that would create a path for the nation's 11 million ...
The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate (U of Rochester Press, 2010). Pruitt, Nicholas T. Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism (NYU Press, 2021). Stern, Alexandra Minna.
Public affairs strategist Vanessa Cárdenas is set to take over the helm of America’s Voice, a leading immigration advocacy organization, replacing the organization’s founder, Frank Sharry.
The act was limited to enforcement and focused on both the border and the interior. In the Senate, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (CIRA) was sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and passed in May 2006. CIRA would have given a path to eventual citizenship to a majority of undocumented immigrants already in the country as well ...