In ten pages this paper examines the social impact of U.S. immigration in a consideration of California's Proposition 187 and other relevant issues. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.
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lifestyle, inasmuch as America represented a new start for many who suffered repression and the inability to make it on their own. Crossing the border into the United States
has changed all of that; once here, they are not only able to obtain good paying jobs -- usually without the added burden of paying taxes -- and a decent
place to live, but they have also tapped into Americas health and educational systems, as well. Indeed, the impact of their presence is overwhelmingly negative upon the nations citizens
being that those who arrive illegally into this country do not typically seek citizenship, much less pay into the system like the other millions of rightful Americans do. II.
SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS A great number of the people who lived in the United States during the 1920s were the same people who had
lived there during the Progressive Era, a period of change that took place from approximately 1900 to1920. Yet some historians have claimed that Progressive ideals were lost and that
those same Americans demonstrated a self-centered intolerance during the 1920s. One of the most significant reasons there was much dissension among Americans and
their government at that time was due to the fact that more than twenty million immigrants left behind a world of heartbreak and disappointment to find a new life in
the United States between 1880 and 1920. During that span of forty years, nearly thirty-five percent of the American population was not native born American; in the minds of
United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly from southern and eastern Europe -- had begun to overtake the country (Abrahamson PG). This