Immigration In The 19th Century

People say that immigration has not changed. Do you think it has changed? What do you think about immigration? Are you for it or against it? I have gotten my background information from sources I have read. I say immigration is different now from the 19th and 20th century because there is more people, crime, and it is more difficult to become a citizen.

Immigration is different because there are more people that come to the US now than there was that came back then. Where they come from? Immigration came from Germany countries, Netherland countries, and Holland countries. Nowadays immigration comes from many countries, but the most famous country they come from is Mexico. How do they get here? Most of the immigrants from back then,

came here on boats and then became citizens. Most of them nowadays come to the US illegally and then become citizens. Some become citizens and then come here, which is the right, correct way to do. The third reason is why they came here. They came here because the US is by far the greatest country in the world and people want to be free, but do not want to take the US citizen test. Nowadays they come here and to be free because they realize how good of a country Americans have. Not only has the population rate gone up since immigration has become more popular, but the crime rate has also gone up ("Past Immigrants Had It Easier Than Today’s Newcomers).
Immigration is different from back then because the crime rate has also gone up and people say it is because of immigration.

In the 19th century, crime was not as big of a deal. People would trust other people with not kidnapping, stealing stuff, or evening assaulting someone. Immigrants in the 19th century also found themselves of various hate crimes, including robbery, arson, and murder. People say that immigrants may have not committed crimes, but they are more prone to break the law. Also immigrants that came into the country in the 19th century thought it was hard to work their way out of poverty, and it was. Landlords or shopkeepers would gouged their prices up for immigrants. The prices they gouged up were rent, goods, and

services.
The first immigration group that was really criminal in the 19th century was the Germans and the Irish ("Crime."). In the 1860’s, Irish made up 60 percent of the jails in New York City. The most famous they committed back then is called public drunkenness, which is called a public intoxic nowadays ("Crime."). Now that 19th century crime has been discussed, next it is time to talk about the 20th century crime.
20th century crime in many ways is almost the same as the 19th century crime. But in 20th century crime there are more drug charges in the 20th century, then there was in the 19 century. In 1924 the Origin Quota Act said that immigrants were still blamed for raising up the crime rate. In 1910 there was 4.3 times more people in jail or prisons because of immigration (Moehling, Carolyn) . Researchers have been looking at the crime of the 19th century and the 20th century and they say that most of the crime in the 19th century was minor offenses and the 20th century are more serious crimes(Moehling, Carolyn).
Now that people have covered 20th century immigration, it is time to talk about the 21st century immigration. People say that 21st immigration has brought immigration to a whole new level. In the last ten years one million immigrants migrate to the United States. Crime in the United States has also gone up because one million immigrants migrate here a year. That is a pretty abstract number.
Unemployment rate has also gone up and experts think it is because of immigration. In 2014 45% of immigrants were only legal. That means that 55% of immigrants are illegal. I say that immigration has gotten too powerful because it is starting to overpopulate our country.
Now that I have talked about Crime and Immigration I will be talking about why immigration is different nowadays because it is harder to become a citizen. First the immigration laws are different nowadays because the laws have changed. Laws have changed because back in the 19th and 20th century immigration was not that big of a deal. Some of the laws are the same, but there have been some that have changed. Couple that stayed the same is the Fourteenth Amendment, passed in the 19th century, protects children born in the United States, basically saying, that if he or she are born in the United States then he or she is a citizen ("History of Laws concerning Immigration and Naturalization in the United States."). After the migration of 123,00 Chinese in the 19th century, the congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which said it would be limiting Chinese immigration ("History of Laws concerning Immigration and Naturalization in the United States.").
In the 20th century congress banned certain people because of the lack of education and poor health. During the 20th century, Herbert Hoover shut down immigration and the population of immigration dropped from 236,000 in 1929 to 23,000 in 1933 ("History of Laws concerning Immigration and Naturalization in the United States."). In the 21st century people had more laws and security assigned because of the terrorist attacks. Most of the terrorists have entered the US on tourist or student trips. In 2005 there was an Act called the Real ID act was put into law that changed visa limits, made it easier to exclude suspected terrorists, remove restrictions on building border fences, and tighten restrictions on applications ("American Immigration in the 21st Century.").
How hard is it to become a citizen today?

Well first he or she has to find out is whether he or she are eligible. Make sure he or she have a U.S, green card. Next he or she need to overcome barriers to their ineligibility. Next, file uscis form. Then get fingerprinted. Then attend a citizenship interview. Last, he or she need to attend a oath ceremony. I think that all immigrants should make sure they are citizens or are qualified for becoming a citizen. Now that the subject has been discussed, it is time to talk about the process of become a US citizen and the immigration laws, it is time to talk about the

rebuttal.
People say that immigration has stayed the same. I say that is wrong because if he or she have looked at the stats of the 19th century and the 21st century immigration, they are way different. My first objection is that more different people still come to the United States nowadays than they did during the 19th and 20th centuries. Nowadays there are more of an abundance of people that are Mexicans or Hispanics. My second objection is that people still have to pay taxes. I mean that by as the adults have to pay taxes yet. I also mean that all the illegal immigrants do not have to pay taxes and that means that our taxes are raising because people are paying for their kids to go to school and other stuff. Also stats have said that taxes have gone up since immigration has become popular. And my third objection is that American jobs are being taken by legal or illegal immigrants. The Americans unemployment rate has gone up since immigration has become more popular because the immigrants have taken their jobs. Nowadays there is more homeless or unemployed people in the US than there was in the 19th and 20th century.(Oakford, Patrick)
In conclusion, I think that immigration should have a limit on it because I think it is bad that the US have millions of immigrants migrating to here. Even if they put a 500,000 people limit a year because that will help yet. I think that this could help then more people would have jobs and the unemployment rate would go down because there's fewer people in the US. Because if people do not start putting a limit or a stop to immigration it is going to get really bad. What is he or she going to say when the United States is so overpopulated that the unemployment rate is really high and people think of us as a dirty country?