There were many opportunities for employment, land ownership, religious freedom, adventure, and a new start in life.
Because they are looking for a better life.
Because we are a free country and many people want to live a free life. So, these people are immigrants because they move from their home country to another. That is why there is so many different cultures and so many people from differentbackgrounds That is what makes the US so special and that is what makes everyone of us unique.
Because we are a free country and many people want to live a free life. So, these people are immigrants because they move from their home country to another. That is why there is so many different cultures and so many people from differentbackgrounds That is what makes the US so special and that is what makes everyone of us unique.
if they are legal immigrants, yes. if they are illegal immigrants, i don't think so.
Impossible to tell because so many of the soldiers were recent immigrants.
If a child is born in the United States they aren't immigrants, but citizens. So, your answer is none.
An illegal immigrant to the US is, by definition, a person who has entered the country in a manner which violates US immigration law. That is the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. So yes, they get deported.
Immigrants chose to move to colonial America for better opportunities. Many other immigrants chose to move to America for religious freedom.
because of poor economy or war in other countries
The US has a population of approximately a third of a billion people, as compared to the total world population which is approaching seven billion people, so there are about 20 times as many people living outside the US as compared to inside the US. Many of these people are living in countries that are not as well developed as the US and which suffer from starvation, poverty, unemployment, and many social ills which are less prevalent in the US. If the US did not restrict immigration it would be flooded with far more immigrants than it can assimilate. A certain number of immigrants can be incorporated into the existing economic and social structures, but there is a limit. Just as an individual could manage to entertain only so many house guests at a given time, so can a nation only deal with so many immigrants.
In the nineteenth century, in the US, many immigrants were treated badly. This was especially true for Irish immigrants. One large reason that they were mistreated was the fact that most of them were Catholics. The Protestant majority in the US despised and feared Catholics. Later on, Chinese immigrants were also treated badly.
The reason it is said that immigrants built the US, is because it is true. Although the Native Americans contributed greatly in many aspects of US society (mostly with their lives and culture), they are the only authentic non immigrants in the US. Every other US citizen born has within their geneology immigrant relatives. The Irish, Germans, English, Chinese, Africans are the ones who built the roads, railroads, bridges, businesses, governments, and so on.