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Immigration: American Dream or Illusion

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Immigration : American Dream or Illusion

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This is about the immigration of the people in the United States of America . The is divided into 6 parts . The first part discuss the immigrations statistics in the United States of America . The second part of the shows the history of immigration in the country . The third part discusses the expectations of the immigrants that had settled in the United States . The fourth

part is all about the reasons why immigrants wanted to settle in the United States . The fifth part would be discussing the Reality of Immigrating in the United States . Lastly the sixth part of the contains the Conclusion and recommendation of the author to the would be immigrants in America .I . Immigrant Statistics

Statistics from the Migration Policy Institute of America shows that there has been a dramatic change of population in the United States This change is attributed to the increasing number of immigrants in the country . From the years 1980 to the year 2006 , there has been a steep climb from the graph provided for by the 2006 American Community Service . In the year 1986 , there is an approximate of 15 million in population of the foreign immigrants in the country . This had been increasing constantly and in the year 2006 , the population reached 37 million (migrationinformation .org , 2007 ) The number stated represents 12 .5 of the Largest population of immigrants came from Mexico which accounts for 30 .7 of the follow Mexico are the Philippines which accounts for 4 .4 , and then next is China and India , Vietnam represents 3 percent , followed by El Salvador which has 2 .8 , Korea with 2 .7 percent , Canada with 2 .3 percent and the United Kingdom 1 .8 percent . As shown , most of the Americans are from the continent of Asia (migrationinformation .org , 2007 . The five US states that has the largest population of immigrants were California which has 9 .9 million population of immigrants , followed by New York with a 3 .425 million and Illinois with 1 .773 million

The large number of immigrants in the country only shows that there are many people who had settled in the country . Some of these people may have started to gain the American Dream . However , some may have thought that the American Dream was an Illusion and that living in America is a survival of the fittest

History of Immigration

In the year 1820 's , the number of immigrants had became over than 10 ,000 . The increase in immigration was seen in the late 1840s and 1850s . The immigration had been in the people from the people in Great Britain and Northern Europe . Most of these people as stated in the genealogy .com had settled in America to survive because there was not enough food to support the population of the country . History recalls that from the years 1845...

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