Since its founding days, the United States had mostly open borders, welcoming immigrants from across the world to work and build lives here. In the late 1800s, record numbers of migrants from ...

Immigrants from Russia entered the United States at both coasts starting in the late 1800s. Nearly 3 million Russians entered ... And finally, American reaction to the waves of domestic labor strikes ...

Early immigration from India to the United States was very short-lived, lasting only from the late 1800s until the 1917 Immigration Law instituted the Asiatic Barred Zone. These earliest immigrants ...

“But the problem of the distortion of our labor markets and the ... in the US following the boom in the late 1800s, with officials passing the Immigration Act of 1924 that tightly restricted ...