In his Notes on Virginia, written in the early 1780s, Thomas Jefferson expressed skepticism that large numbers of immigrants from culturally different countries would help the U.S. to thrive. “Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into… View Article
The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower saw two significant initiatives affecting U.S. immigration and immigrants.In 1953 Eisenhower signed the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, welcoming 214,000 more European immigrants to the U.S. than were allowed under the current system of… View Article
Taken together, President Barack Obama’s immigration policies amounted to a centrist approach, with individual policies garnering harsh criticism from both extremes of the debate on U.S. immigration as he balanced a desire to welcome new immigrants and provide sensible reform… View Article
In January of 2017, historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society created a hashtagged #immigrationSyllabus, collecting textbooks and other readings to orient students on the past, present and future of immigration in… View Article
Jerry Yang, YahooBorn in Taiwan in 1968, Yang came to the U.S. at age 12. He co-founded Yahoo!, one of the most successful early Internet indexes, in 1994Pierre Omidyar, eBayOmidyar was born in Paris in 1967 to Iranian parents, and… View Article
Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” He was born in the German Empire in 1879. He was a U.S…. View Article
Technically the Nobel Prize in Economics is not a Nobel Prize at all. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1969. The following… View Article
As president, Lyndon B. Johnson oversaw numerous key actions that affected immigration to the U.S., the most important of which was the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which eliminated a longstanding quota system in favor of preferences that favored family… View Article
As part of the U.S. naturalization process, a USCIS interviewer asks applicants up to 10 questions from a list of 100 civics topics. The applicant must correctly answer 6 out of the 10 questions to pass the test. Studies have… View Article
According to a 2014 report by the OECD, worldwide migration has significant benefits for labor markets, economic growth, and tax revenue. Migrants accounted for 47% of the increase in the U.S. workforce between 2004 and 2014 and over 70% of… View Article