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    happened between the 1860’s‚ when Chinese were welcome‚ & 1882‚ when they were excluded? 1. They started getting worse treatment every year. 2. Many laws and acts were made against them. 3. The Chinese were feeling depressed and cheated out of their hard work. Step: 2 Based on this document‚ why did many white Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act? Document A: Play White Americans supported the Chinese Exclusion Act because the Chinese would work for less and took their jobs because of

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    How to you Include TPS in the Fight for Immigrant Rights As a DACAmented Salvadoran immigrant‚ I am grateful for the momentum and support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has gained over the last few months. The uncertainty we have lived with since 45 was elected has been draining to say the least. We’ve received support from from national organizations‚ CEO’s and U.S. citizens. However‚ the lack of support and inclusion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) makes me nervous and upset

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    Harry Davis Summers Period 5 The message of On the Trail of the Immigrant In the information text‚ “on the trail of the Immigrants‚” Edward Steiner describes the message of the article by describing the Immigrants journey at the gateway‚ under the huge portal of the vast hall waiting for their final judgment‚ said in paragraph 2. Steiner is describing not only their journey‚ but also the mixed emotions and feelings that are also going on‚ paragraph 5. Steiner describes their feelings

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    Nativism is the feeling that immigration and foreigners are detrimental to native-born Americans. Unfortunately‚ nativist’s feelings are not based on political convenience or logical theories‚ but on ignorant assumptions that produce religious‚ racial‚ and cultural discrimination. Many nativist groups or individuals‚ both in the past and presently‚ have one thing in common- the fear of not being in control. The basic thing one has to see is that misinformation and short-sighted fear can often produce

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    The Hispanic Challenge The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples‚ two cultures‚ and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups‚ Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture‚ forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the AngloProtestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril. By Samuel P. Huntington

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    throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic‚ social‚ and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity‚ economic benefits‚ jobs for non-immigrants‚ crime‚ voting behavior… Among all these immigrant groups‚ this paper will focus on three specifically: the Irish immigrants‚ the African-American and the Native-American. These three groups which lived the same experience of being from a different ethnicity‚ who had suffered from xenophobia and negative stereotypes

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    there are a multitude of issues surrounding unauthorized immigrants who stay in the United States. Often times‚ the media likes to glorify the negative aspects of an issue to promote their own agenda and mindset. In actuality‚ these people aren’t hurting our economy in any way. These individuals actually account for a significant boost in the economy across the board in many ways. Unauthorized Immigrants have actually been shown to boost the wages for middle class families‚ do not benefit from federal

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    no profit for their service. Xin Jin was a contract that employed Chinese immigrants as prostitutes‚ which was a signed and thumbprint agreement that covered the expense of the trip as long as they complied with the guidelines. Xin Jin reveals the challenges women immigrants were faced due to lack of gender equality and social status‚ in order to migrate to California. Xin Jin was the prepaid trip that the women immigrants invest in their future‚ once they have paid their debts under legal documents

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    1) Immigrant families in the United States Immigrants feel that their roles‚ beliefs‚ values‚ etc. are not as effective as the Unites States’‚ thus becoming stressful. “Therefore‚ in addition to the typical normative (e.g.‚ family transitions) and nonnormitive (e.g.‚ family natural disasters) stressors that families encounter‚ immigrant families experience unique stress and change relates to migration and acculturation” (Bush et al.‚ 2010‚ p.287). Immigrants feel that they have to change their ways

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    There are three modes identified in the Iranian immigrant adaptation; one is the denigrating the old culture‚ second is the denying the new culture and third is the ‘bi-culturation’. The family conflict arises when one member of the family follows one mode of adaptation and the others are following another mode of adaptation causing an acculturative stress. The main challenges to adaptation among the Iranian immigrants is the acculturative stress. The Iranians has a very close relationship with

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