The top four sources of Immigration from Europe between 1831 and 1840 were from Ireland, Germany, Great Britain and France. Most sought a better life in the US and many left their nations due to the high levels of poverty in certain demographic sections of their populations.
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The largest number of immigrants coming to the US did between the years of 1991 to 2000 with 1 9,095,417 total immigrants. The top five countries with legal immigration into the United States are Mexico, India, People's Republic of China, Vietnam and Philippines.
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large numbers of Mexican immigrants are a twentieth-century phenom- enon, beginning during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Of the total 5.6 million Mexican immigrants between 1820 and 1997, more than 3.4 million immigrated between 1981 and 1997.
Immigrants come to the US every year. There has never been a single year of US history in which there were no immigrants.
Beginning in 1607, the primary immigrants were British. The years of 1820 to 1830 saw a wave of Irish immigrants.
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In three and a half years, the Jewish population of Israel, which was 650,000 at the state's founding, was more than doubled by an influx of about 688,000 immigrants.
World War I significantly impacted legal immigrants to the U.S. by intensifying nativist sentiments and leading to increased scrutiny of foreign nationals. Many immigrants, especially those from enemy nations or perceived to have loyalties elsewhere, faced discrimination, deportations, and restrictions on their civil liberties. As a result, immigration policies tightened in the post-war years, culminating in the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924, which aimed to limit the influx of immigrants from certain countries.