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"Today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules. Business owners who offer their wages good wages benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart."

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I oppose amnesty for illegal aliens. My grandparents were immigrants to this country. I thank God that when they came, they were required to be self-supporting. They could not have gotten in if they posed a health problem. They had to learn how to speak English. The real problem is welfare. As long as people are coming to the United States to stick their hand into the federal cookie jar, they’re coming for the wrong reasons.

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was a three-time USA presidential candidate who served as the chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a conservative public policy advocacy group which he founded in 1974.

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William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993, to 2001.

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All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it

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"The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage."
Trump calls for a “pause” in the issuance of green cards during which “employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers."
"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."

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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

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"Today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules. Business owners who offer their wages good wages benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart."

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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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"They (immigrants) came to build. Others came to America in different ways, from other lands, under different, and often harrowing conditions, but this place symbolizes what they all managed to build, no matter where they came from or how they came or how much they suffered."
"They helped to build that magnificent city across the river. They spread across the land building other cities and towns and incredibly productive farms. They came to make America work. They didn’t ask what this country could do for them but what they could do to make this refuge the greatest home of freedom in history. They brought with them courage, ambition and the values of family, neighborhood, work, peace, and freedom. They came from different lands but they shared the same values, the same dream."

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Ismael Garcia-Colon
Currently an associate professor at the College of Staten Island and the City University of New York. Interested in History, political economy, U.S. colonialism, migration, Latin America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latinas/os.

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Raven Molloy
Molloy got her Economics PhD at Harvard in 2005,  and has written multiple books about Migration, work in the United States and Housing.
Christopher L Smith
is a democratic member of the Florida Senate. He assisted to  Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he received a degree in political science.

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Claire Felter
Claire Felter covers Africa, global health, and development, as well as edits the Daily News Brief. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Africana studies from Tufts University and master’s degree in journalism from Boston University.

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Derek Thompson
Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, labor markets and the media. He has also written multiple books like Hit Makers. His research interests concern the impact of global economic integration on political sovereignty at various levels. He has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek and The Daily Beast.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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"The Republican Party believes in immigration laws and immigration reforms that address the needs of national security."

-Republican View

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"This country is a nation of immigrants. We owe much of our vitality as a nation to our ability to welcome and assimilate immigrants."

- New Independent Party

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“Democrats believe immigration is not just a problem to be solved, it is a defining aspect of the American character and our shared history.”

-Democratic Party Platform

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It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S Government by force or violence and required all non-citizens adult residents to register with the federal government.

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Used a percentage system to restrict the number of immigrants from a certain country.

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Due to nativism congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese in the US from becoming citizens..
It was renewed in 1892, made permanent in 1902 and repealed in 1943

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A new law that altered the selection of immigrants from the country they were from, to giving priority to people who already had family in the United States or had skills that were needed in the labor market.

Immigrants
Europeans, Asians, Hispanics

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Immigrants came over to America for more job opportunities and freedom of religion.

Immigrants
Chinese, Japanese and other Asian countries.

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Job opportunities because in Europe peasants displaced from agriculture and artisans were made jobless.

Immigrants
German, British, Irish

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Came to America for religious freedom and Economic opportunities.

Immigrants
English, Scots, Irish, German, Dutch, French

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(1965 - Present)

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(1880s - 1914)

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2nd Wave (1830s-1860s)

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1st Wave (Pre-1840s)

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Jonathon Moses
Moses got his PhD from the University of California in Los Angeles. His research interests concern the impact of global economic integration on political sovereignty at various levels. He works for the department of sociology and political science.

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Mark Ellis, Richard Wright and Matthew Townley
Mark Ellis is a Geography professor at the University of Washington, he has over 3000 citations in his works and is known for his publication about immigration, internal migration and geography.
Richard Wright is a professor at Dartmouth college and is also known for his publications about migration, race and immigration.

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Peter Beinart
Beinart is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is a journalist, columnist and liberal political commentator. He has written for Time, New York Times, The New York Review of Books and other periodicals, he has also written 3 books.

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Democrat Party Platform
Every four years the democratic party puts together a party platform where they display their ideas, beliefs and goals. These platform exhibits the history and declaration of how democrats plan to more the country forwards. This party platform was voted on and passed by our membership at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016.

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Population Reference Bureau
Is a private, nonprofit organization specialized in collecting and supplyig statistics necessary for research and/or academic purposes. PRB has a wide range of government partners, nationally and internationally.

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Philip Martin
Martin is a professor at the University of California. He got his Ph. D in 1975 at the University of Wisconsin, and currently he is the UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program in the University of California. Philip Martin is really interested in Immigration, Farm labor and Economic development.

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