[[File:Immigration chart (1).PNG|thumb|right|350px|By 2017, immigration in the United States was at or near its historic highs where Immigration Reform generally takes place.]]
'''Immigration''' is the settlement of a foreigner in another nation. The reasons [[immigrants]] leave their homeland can vary, but it is often to benefit from entitlements or opportunities in the new country. Economic migration is more common in the 21st century, though occasionally, they immigrants also leave for come in search of [[religious freedom|religious]] and politica freedom, and better educational purposesopportunities. War, and other forms of violence, also causes people to leave their homeland. Strict national immigration policies have been shown to can be effective at controlling immigration flowswhen enforced.<ref>Helbling, Marc; Leblang, David (April 27, 2018). [https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.12279 Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows]. ''European Journal of Political Research'', 58: 248-269. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12279.</ref>Approximately 10 million European immigrants came to the United States between 1865-1900, most in search of religious freedom and greater prosperity.
Many of the top jobs in the [[U.S.]] are given away to foreigners now, such as the most lucrative [[baseball]] contracts. [[Liberal]] [[P-1 visa]]s allow this, which is just as harmful to the [[U.S.]] as sending [[American]] manufacturing jobs to foreign countries.
==US Immigration history==
Contrary to [[globalist]] and [[open borders]] talking points, the [[United States]] is not a "nation of immigrants.immigrant",<ref>Multiple references:
*https://www.brookings.edu/product/our-nation-of-immigrants/
*Gonzalez, Pedro (July 8, 2018). [https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/08/america-is-not-a-nation-of-immigrants/ America Is Not a Nation of Immigrants]. ''American Greatness''. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
*Sutherland, Howard (November 18, 2002). [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-nation-of-immigrants-myth/ The Nation of Immigrants Myth]. ''The American Conservative''. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
See also:
*Binder, John (November 11, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/11/11/steve-bannon-were-a-nation-of-citizens-were-not-a-nation-of-immigrants/ Steve Bannon: ‘We’re a Nation of Citizens; We’re Not a Nation of Immigrants’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 18, 2019.</ref> but rather of descendants of immigrants. This talking point is often used as an argument in favor of mass levels of migration, including [[illegal immigration]].<ref>Munro, Neil (January 19, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/01/19/watch-nyt-writer-explains-why-nation-immigrants-needs-open-borders/ WATCH: New York Times Writer Explains Why a ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Needs Open Borders]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 18, 2019.</ref>However, Europeans [[colonized]] America and imported African slaves to further increase the non-indigenous population..
===Colonial America===
Most of the migration to the [[thirteen colonies]] came from [[Britain]], with English, Scots and (Protestant) Irish{{fact}} ancestry. They remained inside the [[British Empire]], technically not leaving their native country for a foreign land, so they The earliest of these are not technically considered "immigrants" any more than , because they were conquering a person who moves foreign land from Florida to Alaska todayits inhabitants for the [[British Empire]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1123187983358808064</ref>
A large number of [[German American|German immigrants]] came to Pennsylvania and New York. To this day they are called "Pennsylvania Dutch" but they were Germans, and came for religious freedom and economic opportunity. Dutch did come and settle in New Amsterdam (now New York), which was part of the Dutch Empire so they were not "immigrants" either. [[Black history|Black slaves]] were involuntary immigrants to all the colonies, especially the tobacco plantations of Virginia and Maryland, and the rice plantations of South Carolina. The [[American Revolution]] cut off movement from 1775 to 1783. When it resumed, about 80,000 American Loyalists left the U.S. to immigrate to Canada or return to Britain. Migration was light before 1815, because of wars in Europe. The import or export of slaves was made illegal in 1809.
*[[European migrant crisis]]
== Religion and migration ==
See: [[Religion and migration]]
==See also==
*[http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Jewish.html The Jewish]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.de/2013/03/then-from-egypt-to-israel-now-from.html Then, from Egypt to Israel: Now, from Russia and the U.S.]
*[https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/11515 Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Coercion]; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 1 (Spring-Summer 2010)
==References==
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