immigration

Immigration in the United States

Immigration has played an important role in the building and formation of America, because of this federal laws have resulted in mass immigration. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders account for a large number of Asians who now reside in the United States and consists of various other groups. These growing populations of immigrants include such groups as Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans, Hawaiians and Samoans, and people from India, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. According to 1990 census, there are currently over than 7.2 million Asian American and Pacific islanders who currently live in the United States. Many of these immigrants migrate to the United States in search for better living conditions, better jobs, and just better economic opportunity.

Throughout history, Congress has enacted laws and has had to amend them to control the flow of both legal and illegal...