What Is Immigration?
Immigration is when foreign people come to live permanently in another country . People would move to different countries for different reasons. These reasons were called Push and Pull factors. A push factor was something that pushed the people out of their country, like lack of religious freedom and poverty. A pull factor was something that pulled the people to the United States, such as more job opportunity and religious freedom. The old immigrants were protestant and skilled in many ways. They came over as families and they assimilated quickly. Most of them came from Northern and Western Europe. The newer immigrants were unskilled and catholic or jewish. They'd arrive impoverished and they were clannish. The immigrants either came over to the United States and entered Angel Island in California or Ellis Island in New York. New immigrants had to face inspections of their health and ability, finding a job, finding somewhere to live, and making a living for themselves. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law passed to ban any Chinese originating person access to immigrate to the united states. The Immigration Act of 1903 banned anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes