Wednesday, November 02, 2011

40 Million Reasons to Celebrate

This shows how alike and also how different the experiences of immigrants in our early history are to the happenings today. - - Donna Poisl

FROM ALEX NOWRASTEH

At least two population milestones have been reached in 2011. The most spectacular is that 7 billion people now live in the world. The second, and more meaningful to Americans, is that nearly 40 million immigrants live in the United States today. The increase in our nation's immigrant population has generated considerable controversy, but that is not new. Amidst all the fears of newcomers failing to integrate into American society, we need to take a look back at how those controversies played out during earlier waves of immigration. We can learn a lot from that history.
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