A Brief History of Immigration to the United States

Mr. Beat gives a (somewhat) brief history of immigration to the United States of America. Have you heard of that country? Boy, he sure has. Anyway...

Another law I left out was the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. You can learn about it here:    • The law that broke US immigration  

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i...

Sources/further reading:
https://publications.iom.int/books/wo...
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-rea...
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/artic...
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall by Reece Jones
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Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Purchase here: https://amzn.to/44H87HL
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/progr...
https://sojo.net/articles/how-united-...
https://cers.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border by Rachel St. John
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40170391

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0:00 Introduction
5:09 The First Immigrants
10:04 Protestant and English
12:42 The Rise of Nativism
15:26 Wait a second, should we limit immigration?
18:10 The biggest backlash against immigration yet
22:25 The backlash ends