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Beginning of colonial immigration
Foreigners' began early to straggle into the colonies. But not until the eighteenth century was well under way did they come in appreciable numbers, and even then the great bulk of these non-English newcomers were from the British Isles, of Welsh, Scotch, Irish, and Scotch-Irish extraction -
222,500 White and 27,500 Black Inhabitants Live in the Colonies
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Articles of Confederation Kept Citizenship and Naturalization of Immigrants under Individual States' Control
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Foreign Slave Trade Becomes Illegal; 50,000 Slaves Become First "Illegal Aliens" in the US
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Chinese Immigration to the United States Increases During the Gold Rush
Chinese immigrants came flowing into the Unites States through the West coast. The gold rush prompted many of the peeople in China to search for a better life. Later the U.S. would stop all immigration from China. -
Ellis Island Opens as Immigrant Entry Checkpoint
From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor. -
US Border Patrol Established with Labor Appropriation Act of 1924
The Unites States establishes its first border patrol agents for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations -
US Labor Secretary Estimates That over 1,000,000 Mexicans Are in United States Illegally
"From figures available by the United States Department of Labor, the five Southwestern states visited have a Mexican population estimated as follows: Texas, 555,000; California, 350,000; New Mexico, 180,000; Colorado, 70,000; Arizona, 60,000. No longer, however, can it be said that the Mexicans are confined to the Southwest." -
Nov. 1954 - Ellis Island Closes
In November of 1954 the last detainee, a Norwegian merchant seaman named Arne Peterssen was released, and Ellis Island officially closed. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson declared Ellis Island part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. -
Cuba Allows 125,000 Cubans to Illegally Depart for the United States
In 1980 the Cuban government allowed 125,000 Cubans to illegally depart for the United States from the port of Mariel, an incident known as the 'Mariel boatlift -
First Detailed National Count of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Estimates 3.4 Million Immigrants in United States Illegally
In 1994, the INS [US Immigration and Naturalization Service] developed the first detailed national estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States. Those estimates indicated that the unauthorized resident population was 3.4 million as of October 1992 -
Children crossing U.S. border
The illegal immigration of children under 18 is on the rise. The U.S. has intervened by taking the children into shelters across the nation. It is costing the nation millions of dollars to take care of these people. The author explains why more and more undocumented immigrant children are coming to the U.S. -
Senate approves immigration bill
On June 27, 2013 the senate approved legislation that would allow millions of illegal immigrants the chance to live legally in the United States, and eventually become U.S. citizens