Immigrants make up roughly the same share of the U.S. population as they did a century ago.

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But changes in the global economy, and in U.S. immigration law, have dramatically shifted where U.S. immigrants are coming from.

A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/21/159026833/100-years-of-immigrants-in-america-in-two-graphs?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120821

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Everyone here knows. This is not news.

But since we are sharing stuff like this, allow me to contribute.

Why Does the Sun Rise in the East (and Set in the West)?

Each morning, the sun rises in the east, makes its slow journey across the sky, and then sets in the west. Then it continues a journey around the other side of the Earth, and rises again the next morning. This is how it looks from here on Earth, and that’s what ancient people thought was happening, but that view is totally wrong.

The truth is that the Earth is orbiting the Sun. It’s the Sun that’s motionless, and the Earth that’s moving around it. From our vantage point, it looks like the Sun is going around the Earth, because it’s actually the Earth that’s turning. The Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, so that the Sun returns to the same position in the sky every day.

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/18117/why-does-the-sun-rise-in-the-east-and-set-in-the-west

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It seems to me that Italians a hundred years ago were viewed in a similar way Mexicans are viewed today.

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It seems to me that Italians a hundred years ago were viewed in a similar way Mexicans are viewed today.

Ummm talk to non-italians in an environment where it's safe to say such things and they're not viewed all that well even today.

People are a-holes and will say the meanest stuff when they think no one judgmental is listening. About everyone.

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But changes in the global economy, and in U.S. immigration law, have dramatically shifted where U.S. immigrants are coming from.

A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.

http://www.npr.org/b...mpaign=20120821

You left off one very important word in all these facts ....ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You left off one very important word in all these facts ....ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really, they're all illegal?

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But changes in the global economy, and in U.S. immigration law, have dramatically shifted where U.S. immigrants are coming from.

A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/21/159026833/100-years-of-immigrants-in-america-in-two-graphs?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120821

And then what happened?

Congress passed a literacy requirement in 1917 to curb the influx of low-skilled immigrants from entering the country.

Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, which was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Russians who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s. This ultimately resulted in precluding the all "extra" immigration to the United States, including Jews fleeing Nazi German persecution.

In 1924, quotas were set for European immigrants so that no more than 2% of the 1890 immigrant stocks were allowed into America.

Another interesting note in immigration history... that most are not aware of-

The 1910s marked the high point of Italian immigration to the United States. Over two million Italians immigrated in those years, with a total of 5.3 million between 1880 and 1920.[37][38] About a third returned to Italy, after working an average of five years in the U.S.

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Weren't the Pilgrims illegal from the Indians point of view?

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Weren't the Pilgrims illegal from the Indians point of view?

No they were the original "diversity is our greatest strength" crowd.

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Weren't the Pilgrims illegal from the Indians point of view?

and how did that work out for the Indians. Illegal imigration was not good for the Indians and it is not good for us.

Weren't the Pilgrims illegal from the Indians point of view?

and how did that work out for the Indians. Illegal imigration was not good for the Indians and it is not good for us.

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