Immigration and National Security



Immigration and National Security

Immigration and Immigration Law

From the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the turn of the twenty-first century, some 73 million individuals immigrated to the region embracing the present-day United States, thus contributing powerfully to the shaping of American history and identity. Fewer than one million of these immigrants journeyed to America during the colonial era, when perhaps 400 thousand African slaves and some 500 thousand Europeans, the vast majority of them British, arrived (Jan, 2005). The remaining 72 million immigrants entered after the Declaration of Independence. Over time the immigration policy of the new ...