City Of Aurora, Its Immigrant Population, And Police Department

Globally, the United States has been known as "a nation of immigrants" almost from its inception. Beginning in the 1600s with English Puritans and continuing today, America is a melting pot of culture and ethnicity. In fact, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigration was the major source of U.S. population growth. Looking over our 200+ years we find that to clearly be true, with approximately 1 million immigrants coming to America during the 17th and 18th century. Almost 3 million arrived during the 1860s, and another 3 million in the 1870s. In the next four decades, the number of immigrants rose to over 25 million people, most from various European nations, most arriving in New York or one of the Eastern seaports (Damon, 1981). Despite the politicization, as of 2006, the United States actually was the number one country globally to accept legal immigrants into the country, with a current immigrant population of almost 40 million (Terrazas and Batalova, 2009). In fact, the peak of immigration was 1907, when over 1.2 million Europeans entered the country beginning a push towards legislation limiting immigration in the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924 and the 1921 Congressional Quota Act. These immigrants came for two sociological reasons: the push factor (wars, famine, persecution and overpopulation) and the pull factors (jobs and the promise of freedom). Most came by ship, and a passage often cost the equivalent of an entire life's savings causing many

"Recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau (2012) indicate that 12.9 percent of the population are foreign born, and 33.1

Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing

In the United States, the cliché of a nation of immigrants is often invoked. Indeed, very few Americans can trace their ancestry to what is now the United States, and the origins of its immigrants have changed many times in American history. Despite the identity of an immigrant nation, changes in the origins of immigrants have often been met with resistance. What began with white, western European settlers fleeing religious persecution morphed into a multicultural nation as immigrants from countries across the globe came to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Like the colonial immigrants before them, these new immigrants sailed to the Americas to gain freedom, flee poverty and

Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova, analysts at the Migration Policy Institute, suggest that almost 3 million of South American immigrants moved to the United States in 2014, where 77% of the total population were from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. In addition, they stated that New York state was one of the areas that accounts for the greatest population of these Latin American immigrants who come to this country to pursue better educational opportunities, especially in the math and science fields; however, the English barrier becomes an obstacle for those who want to achieve it. The age at which they arrived is crucial for their learning because the younger they are; the more time they will have to learn the English language as well as adapt to a new system and culture; but what happens with immigrants who come at an older age? Simply, the obstacles are more than just the

As of 2013, the foreign-born population has reached 41.3 million, accounting for approximately 13.1% of U.S. residents. The immigrant population comprises naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents (green card holders), temporary workers (most commonly on H-1 visa), and foreign students (most commonly on F-1 or J-1 visa). For the purpose of this paper, I only focus on legal permanent residents (about 13.3 million of them). According to admission requirements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS), this body can be further divided into four groups based on their admission criteria: (1) family-sponsored preferences; (2) immediate relatives of U.S. citizens; (3) employment-based preferences and (4) others. However, employment-based immigrants also include many types, priority workers, skilled workers, unskilled workers, investors,

The United States of America has the largest foreign-born population in the world. With nearly thirteen percent of the total population being foreign-born, one may find it hard to imagine an immigrant-free country (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Immigration has been an integral part of the United States’ overall success and the country’s economy since it was established and without it, would have never been founded at all. Although there are some negative issues associated with immigration and many native-born Americans believe to be more of a problem than a solution, overall it actually has a positive effect. Immigrants in America, among other things, fill jobs where native-born Americans may not want to work or cannot work, they contribute

It is historically acknowledged that the authentic Native-Americans are the Indians and there is documented theory that their origination possibly evolved from Asia. From the first settlers, throughout the establishment of the 13 colonies and the growth of the United States, state-by-state, America has truly become the “Melting Pot”, a nation of immigrants. The United States Census in 2007 allocates that more than 38 million of the nation’s residents were foreign-born; 12% of the population of 302 million.

Chicago just recently celebrated its 178th birthday and a lot has changed over the past 178 years. Chicago is known as the 3rd largest city in the United States, but it hasn’t always been that way. Currently an estimated 2.7 million people live in the Chicagoland area. Back in 1837 when Chicago was established, the number of people who lived in Chicago was estimated to be around 4,170 people.

Imagine living in the 1920s. What was society like? If asked, most people would say that they could visualize flappers, extravagant parties, fast cars, jazzy music, and the wild youth. This decade is often described as boisterous. In this time period, society was social and dramatic. It also contained numerous changes in America’s politics and important historical events. One important change in politics was immigration. Immigration is the movement of people to a country where there is not natives or where the immigrants do not possess citizenship. In today’s civilization, people are commonly questioned about their heritage through census surveys, job questionnaires, school surveys, and when admitted into hospitals. Frequently, people are questioned about their heritage. If people were to research their heritage, it is possible to discover their ancestors were immigrants to America at one time. After researching immigration, books and journal databases have broadened the information on immigration in the 1920s. Through the careful study of immigration, facts and statistics reveal the history of immigration leading up to the 1920s, the impact immigration had on America, the problems caused by immigration, the control of immigration through the quota system, and the rise in illegal immigration throughout America.

According to US Census Bureau data, in 2009 12.5 percent or 38.5 million of the population were foreign-born people where foreign-born is defined as anyone who was not a United States citizen at birth. Over half of these immigrants entered the United States during the last 20 years. (Walters et al. October 2010) More recently, 7 million immigrants or 17 percent arrived in 2005 or later. (Walters et al. November 2011) Foreign-born people constituted 14.7 percent of the labor force in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1970. (Ottaviano et al. August 2006) This increase in immigration has rekindled the discussion about the effect of immigration on native-born workers. United States policy makers, economists and news outlets have been trying to

Overall, foreign born residents had a higher percentage of people in the labor force than native residents by 2 to 4 percent. Generally, I thought native residents would have more employment opportunities, but there are multiple factors that could contribute these statistics. Also, foreign born; naturalized citizens had the highest percent of 74.8 of those who own their housing unit. The other demographics lied below the 70 percent. This results in renter-occupied housing unit percentages to be low for foreign born; naturalized citizens, which is unexpected comparatively to other demographics.

The nation began regulating and controlling immigrants in 1875. Beginning in 1970’s the percent of people living in the U.S. that were foreign born began to rise. Passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965 was a turning point. In 1980, 6.2 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born and by 2010 that number (para. 2).

Immigrants are a growing part of the labor force. As the foreign-born population has grown as a share of the total population,

Since the 19th Century, America has become known as the nation of immigrants. During that time the United States experienced the biggest wave of immigration of any place or time in the history of the world. It was also during that same time that America felt the greatest growth in production and standard of living than any other point in history (Divine, 1957). For many, the link between these two exceptional points in history was no coincidence.