Catastrophic violence, economic turmoil, and political upheaval abroad driving waves of newcomers here: Immigration is ... the city in the middle of the 19th century amid a horrific potato blight ...

In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories.

Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th century and continued into the early 20th century. However, only about 20,000 found their way ...

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military to enforce laws on US soil, including arresting ...

and economic hardship in the 19th century. Their journey mirrors that of countless immigrant groups who helped build America, despite facing hostility and exclusion. Yet today, immigration remains ...

Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants ... political environment of the late 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed an expansive ...

Thousands upon thousands of poor but hopeful travelers set out for America, in search of a better ... Americans from the Southwest. Many mid-19th century French immigrants were political refugees ...

Elites more often support lenient immigration policies ... Mexico sees the U.S. the way 19th-century elites in this country saw the American frontier: as a valuable escape hatch for the ...

With waves of immigration to America's cities in the middle of the nineteenth century, the position of the wealthy and elite in every city was threatened. But in New York and Chicago ...