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Comedian Bill Maher clashed with actor John Leguizamo after he claimed on a Monday podcast that the U.S. has an abundance of space for more immigrants to live. Former President Joe Biden presided over ...
As some have pointed out (Letters, April 3), U.S. tariffs were declining in the late 1800s, and the link between tariffs and economic growth is illusory at best.
A massive backlash against immigration occurred in the US following the boom in the late 1800s, with officials passing the Immigration Act of 1924 that tightly restricted migration to America.
The Trump administration is cracking down on immigration — legal and otherwise — setting the stage for potential labor shortages, weaker economic growth and higher inflation.
Agriculture is one of Idaho’s top industries, and its history is steeped in immigration, from the Basque sheepherders of the late 1800s to today’s Dutch-born dairy farmers who spent their ...
President Donald Trump's policies could bring back a labor shortage that hurt the economy during the pandemic and its aftermath.
On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted The complicated history of trade-offs and compromises behind U.S. border control.
That changed in the late 1800s as immigration surged, said Kornel Chang, associate professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s ...
The immigration surge of the past few years, legal and illegal, has surpassed even the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Millions of immigrants are entering the country and joining the workforce The strong migration flow into the U.S. over the past few years is easing tight labor markets, according to a Monday ...
Recent remarks by anti-immigration figures criticizing New York City's high foreign-born population are historically ...