Aryn Braun
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The Intelligence from The Economist · The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday · 3 Jul 2026
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Americans have been arguing about immigration since the country's founding.
In his first message to Congress as president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson insisted it was too difficult for newcomers to become citizens.
Alexander Hamilton, his rival and an immigrant himself, actually favored restrictions.
This debate over how welcoming America should be is woven into the very fabric of the country.
We've seen it resurface again and again as new waves of immigrants have arrived on America's shores.
The first big influx of immigrants came to America between eighteen twenty and eighteen eighty.
Most were from northern and western Europe.
Нірли тільки арінгестай, дрив from their homes by famine.
Around the same time, California's gold rush lured Chinese migrants to the West Coast.
Animosity towards Chinese laborers grew, and in 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to restrict immigration to America based on race or nationality.
A second wave came between eighteen ninety and nineteen nineteen when more than eighteen million people arrived, mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
Many of these new Americans came through Ellis Island, and they settled mainly in industrial cities.
Then more backlash, more suspicion.
New legislation closed the door to would-be Americans.
In nineteen twenty four, Congress enacted a strict quota system that would limit immigration for the next four decades.
Americans like to describe their country as a nation of immigrants.
That phrase was popularized in the nineteen fifties by then Senator John F.
Kennedy.
His successor in the Oval Office, Lyndon Johnson, would sign the Immigration and Nationality Act in nineteen sixty-five.
That law ended the quota system and established America's modern immigration regime.
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