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last updated:
June 28, 2002
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Welcome!
This is an educational site that seeks to
provide some information as well as links
to other sites that deal with issues
pertaining to immigration to the United
States. This information is meant to support
4th to 10th grade students who may wish to
carry out projects in this subject area.

For hundreds of years, people from all over
the world have left the countries where they
were born to start new lives in America.
Why did people leave their homes for a
strange and distant land?   Though the
reasons are as diverse as the immigrants
themselves, a few major ones can be
identified.

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 History of immigration  How many immigrants are here?  What are the effects of immigration?
Immigration history and the history of the
United States are completely intertwined.
Following the 'discovery' of the New World
by Columbus in 1492, early explorers and other settlers began coming to America.
The earliest permanent settlements in what
is now the United States were the
American colonies at St. Augustine, Florida
(1565), Jamestown, Virginia (1607), and at
Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620).
What has been the costs and benefits of
immigration both to the immigrants as well
as to the United States?
Most immigrants came, and continue to
come to the United States for better job
opportunities and higher wages. They thus
seek jobs, earn wages, pay taxes and
consume public services, and all these
activities have significant effects on the
U.S. economy and labor market.
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©2002: Stephen Asunka  (MA student in Instructional Technology and Media)   Teachers College,  Columbia University.
email: asunkas@netscape.net