![]() By 1880, the total number had exceeded 100,000. Since the mid-19th century, Chinese laborers were trafficked in large numbers by Americans to the United States as coolies. ◆The anti-Chinese movement is among the most infamous in discriminating and ostracizing immigrants in the U.S. They were long-time victims of racial discrimination in the United States. Irish immigrants were treated as blacks and were not accepted by white Americans until the 20th century. In 1844, riots against Irish immigrants broke out in Philadelphia, causing at least 20 deaths. Xenophobes even resorted to violence, attacking Irish immigrants and burning down their churches. New York and Massachusetts enacted laws to deport and repatriate Irish immigrants. In the 1850s, the party produced seven governors, eight senators and 104 House representatives. The American Party, or the Know-Nothing Party, made anti-Irish immigration its main agenda. A large number of early American nativist and exclusionist organizations and political parties were formed at this time. Irish immigrants were stigmatized and labeled as being lazy, inferior, violent and dangerous. A strong movement against Irish immigrants emerged. Between the 1830s and the 1860s, Catholic Irish immigrated to the United States in large numbers. ◆Irish immigrants were severely discriminated against and alienated in the early years of the United States. Their rights to life, development and political participation are not effectively secured. The harms of historical enslavement still haunt black descendants today. The three-fifths clause was introduced, under which the actual number of black slaves would be multiplied by three-fifths in the allocation of House seats. Constitution did not recognize the civil rights of blacks. The United States Declaration of Independence declared that "all men are created equal." Nonetheless, the earliest U.S. In order to justify the enslavement of blacks, white people established an oppressive racial hierarchy based on skin color. The idea and the system of racism against blacks have thus taken root in America. Soon after that, the colonies passed laws to legitimate black slaves as "permanent property" whose children also automatically became slaves. In 1619, the first 20 Africans were sold as slaves to the colony of Virginia. After they arrived in the United States, they suffered inhuman abuses and had no human rights to speak of. Their immigration was not voluntary, but forced. ◆Black people are among the earliest immigrants to the United States. It is worth noting that the Alien Enemies Act is still in effect today. citizens and gave the president the power to imprison and deport dangerous immigrants or those from enemy countries. These acts made it more difficult for immigrants to become U.S. government formulated the laws such as the Naturalization Act, the Alien Act, the Alien Enemies Act and the Sedition Act. president once said outright that there is no need to encourage emigration "except of useful mechanic's-and some particular descriptions of men-or professions." Fearful of domestic chaos inspired by the French Revolution, in 1798, the U.S. ◆ When the United States was first founded, white Americans, mainly Anglo-Saxon Protestants, were very suspicious of immigrants and tried to restrict and assimilate them. Using facts and figures, this report lays bare the lies and double standards on the issue of refugees and immigrants of the United States, a self-proclaimed "beacon of democracy." ![]() This report gives a truthful account of the United States' egregious record on the issue of refugees and immigrants by reviewing events in the past and present within the United States and beyond. government on refugees and immigrants going to the country. Worse still, the recent years have witnessed one humanitarian disaster after another caused by the U.S. treatment of immigrants is one rife with inhumane tragedies such as discrimination, exclusion, arrest, detention, expulsion, and a litany of human rights abuses. ![]() Ever since colonial times, immigrants from around the world have come to the country in waves. The United States is a nation of immigrants. IV. The United States Is the Primary Cause of the Global Refugee Crisis III. Multiple Domestic Factors Behind the Entrenched Immigration and Refugee Problem in the United States II. The Human Rights Violations Against Refugees and Immigrants in the United States See No Improvement ![]() I. Violations of the Rights of Immigrants in the United States ![]()
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