Class notes

• Trump is making it harder to get into the United States and apply for asylum
• The S.S. St. Louis left Nazi, Germany with 900 jews on board and tried to apply for asylum but was rejected by the U.S.,  Canada, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina
• Non Reforma (not returning)
• 1951 United Nations Meeting
• Persecution
• Carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis was anchored so close to the Florida coast, its passengers could see the lights of Miami. 
• Some of the passengers had cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge, but Roosevelt didn't respond. Still recovering from the Great Depression, the nation was in no mood to accept more immigrants to compete for scarce jobs -- polls showed 83 percent of Americans opposed relaxing restrictions on immigration.

notes

• a migrant needs a passport to legally emigrate from a country and a visa to legally immigrate to a new country
• two reasons that most visas are granted are for specific employment placement and family reunification
• U.N. classifies countries according to four types of immigration policies
• maintain the current level of immigration
• increase the level
• reduce the level
• no policy
• About 80 million people migrated to the US between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million who were alive in 2015
• The population in the US in 1970 was 3.9 million including 950,000 who had immigrated to one of the colonies
• One of the main places where immigrants come from is Europe with 62% and of those, 45-50% came from the lands comprising the modern day United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
• The other is Sub-Saharan Africa at the time of independence there were 360,000 people in the US, 38% immigrants. Another 250,000 in the next century
• Most of the Africans were forced to migrate to the US as slaves, whereas most Europeans were voluntary migrants
• Emigration from Ireland and Germany resumed following a temporary decline during the US civil war in 1870
• Immigration from Scandinavia increased to 500,000 per year to the US in 1880
• Annual immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe reached 1,000,000 or two-thirds of all immigrants during this time
• Among European countries Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the US: 7.2 million, then Italy: 5.4 million, then the United Kingdom: 5.3 million, then Ireland at 4.8 million.

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• we took notes out of a packet
• Those who do so are entering without proper documents and thus are called unauthorized immigrants
• Unauthorized Immigrant is the term preferred by academic observers, including the authoritative Pew Hispanic Center, as a neutral term
• Undocumented Immigrant is the term preferred by some of the groups that advocate for more rights for these individuals

Sub Notes in Class

Changing U.S Immigration:

• The United States has had three main eras of immigration:

1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries 

• Immigration the united states dropped during the great depression and world war II in the 1930s and 1940s. the number increased in the 1950s and then surged to historical levels during the first decade of the twenty-first century. 

• More than 3/4 of U.S immigrants come from two regions Latin America and Asia

• The U.S. population in 1790 was the first census after its independence was 3.9 million along with 950,000 who immigrated to one of the colonies that are now part of the U.S.