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    Immigration Reform

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    Immigration Reform Team C – Sivi Contreras‚ Jenifer Navarro‚ Angela Hernandez BCOM/275 February 5‚ 2013 Gloria Flores ABSTRACT The debate over immigration has become one of the most heated arguments. Immigrants leave their home countries desperate need for food to feed their families‚ unemployment purposes‚ their poverty conditions environment

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    Confederate Flag was the main flag for the Confederates during the civil war‚ and has remained a part of the southern culture to this day. The Confederates in the Civil War stood for the right to own people and force them to work. The Confederate Flag in the 1860’s was more a symbol of people fighting for beliefs‚ but today is a symbol of modern racism. The Confederate Flag is offensive to African-Americans‚ and is a symbol of racial segregation. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism and should be taken

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    industrial growth during the period from 1860 to 1900. Before the blossom of this industrialization‚ the United States consisted of mostly farms and small towns. The development of factories and urban cities soon changed all of this. The railroad system expanded and eventually turned into a goldmine for commerce in the United States. Machinery started to decrease the amount of animal labor used‚ which allowed the consistency and production of goods to rise. As it reached the brink of the 20th century

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    American experienced a strong and rapid change from 1770s to 1830s which led to the creation of a new regime‚ dominated in form of party and democratic culture. The regime lasted unchanged for a century‚ before the civil war which brought about changes; great transformations of American society and culture‚ increase in world’s industrial economy. American’s public life from 1830s to the 1930s was the consistent in the form and content‚ of its party politics‚ its government and legal system. The democrats

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    Immigration Essay

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    Immigration is becoming a controversial issue in the U.S. Immigration advantages like economic growth‚ sharing cultures‚ diversity and new skill sets in betterment of immigrant’s lives. Immigration makes a more innovative‚ flexible‚ and productive economy‚ leading to new and better jobs. USA is also known as a “melting pot” because people living in the USA are from different parts of the World. An important benefit of immigration is economic growth. According to a research on White House website

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    Immigration in the UK

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    Immigration remains a widely debated issue in the UK‚ which is not surprising since the average gross annual inflow of immigrants into the UK has grown rapidly since the middle of the 1990s. According to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’s) International Passenger Survey (IPS) (2012)‚ the number of people immigrating to the UK has risen from around 50‚000 per annum at the beginning of the 1990s to 524‚000 per annum‚ on average‚ between 2004 and 2011(Mitchell‚ J. et al.‚ 2011). A flexible

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    IMMIGRATION LAW

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    Immigration Law and Reform The current immigration situation of the U.S. is bleak and has been for sometime‚ post 9/11 has brought forth a paranoia that is very debilitating to the immigrant community and its aftershocks are still being felt to this day. The obstacles emplaced on the hopeful citizen or resident to our country are high‚ and almost impossible to overcome and the controversy remains to get more tangled in complicated rhetoric and patriotic zealots who are NOT thinking of alternatives

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    Chinese Immigration

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    Michael Gillaspie American History Ms. Rankin 15 December 2003 Chinese Immigration In many aspects‚ the motivations for the Chinese to come to the United States are similar to those of most immigrants. Some came to "The Gold Mountain‚" and others came to the United States to seek better economic opportunity. Yet there were others that were compelled to leave China either as contract laborers or refugees. The Chinese brought with them their language‚ culture‚ social institutions‚ and customs

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    The urban population boom from 1860-1900‚ it marked a dramatic shift in the United States from its traditional rural‚ to the new city lifestyle. The accepted fourteen million immigrants flooded in‚ ranging in all variations of ethnic backgrounds. From the English to the Russians‚ and all those in between‚ the many immigrants sought to escape problems ranging from poverty‚ warfare‚ political and religious persecution and natural disasters that plagued their homeland. With the arrival of the newcomers

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    Illegal Immigration

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    laid off due to being replaced with immigrant workers who will perform the same job duties for lower wages. Advocates that side with the illegal immigrants say that the immigrants fill jobs that Americans won’t. Another huge issue with illegal immigration is the war on drugs. Mexican drug cartels transport hundreds of kilos of cocaine‚ heroine‚ and marijuana into the Unites States across the border every day. Mexico has been widely unable to

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