Immigration

Since the beginning there was always something for everyone in America. Weather it were a good factor about the U.S. or a bad factor about their country something always encouraged people to come here.

United States as a country was created by immigrants and their difference from any other country in the world is that all most all the people who live there are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The reasons people emigrate from other countries is that the United States offers opportunity and a chance for growth and economic gain. In addition, many were driven by war, famine, economic hardship, persecution and environmental changes.

The American Indians were the first immigrants who arrived in North America during the Ice Age, sometime between 30,000 B.C and 12,000 B.C. They crossed the Bering Strait on a land bridge that then connected Alaska to Siberia, and 300 years before Columbus "discovered" America, 40,000 newcomers, in what is now St. Louis, Missouri, had built a trade center.

By 1492, when Christopher Columbus made his voyage, there were 20 million people spread across North America and South America. They had different religions, cultures and spoke many different languages. About 1 million Indians representing

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Many come for the same reasons they did in the early 1900's, and before; poverty, war, persecution, unemployment and to be with family.

They feared for the Protestant heritage, which was threatened by a wave of Irish-Catholic immigrants. The causes really have not changed at all, but the nationalities have changed. With the new laws, legal immigrants do not qualify for five years, limiting many to very few resources. The Jewish settled in Mid-Atlantic regions of New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. However, better, clearer policies and more extensive training of federal employees of all agencies are performed.

Supported by a 1995 study conducted by the Washington DC based Institute of Medicine, the study concluded that "a surging number of foreign-trained doctors