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The 5 page paper discusses the financial status of Irish immigrants of the 19th century and today's Mexican immigrants. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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their new country. This paper discusses the two different "waves" of immigration; the so-called "second wave" of European immigrants that arrived between approximately the mid-1840s and 1920; and todays immigrants,
with regard to their financial status. Because America is a nation of immigrants, the focus of this paper will have to be narrow: well consider the Irish immigrants of the
"second wave," and todays Mexican legal immigrants. (The paper will not discuss illegal immigration.) The Second Wave The first wave of immigrants comprised the original colonists; the estimated colonial population
in 1780 was 2,780,000 ("Migration of People"). Official records of immigration began in 1820, and from then until 1830 "the arrivals numbered more than 20,000 each year" ("Migration of People").
Between 1831-1840 the number climbed to 60,000 and to 260,000 between 1851-1860 ("Migration of People"). Among those who came to America at this time were the Irish. The
Great Potato Famine in Ireland was one of the most horrific events in human history. Between 1845 and 1851, the potato crop in Ireland-upon which most Irish depended for food-failed
completely. Thousands of people starved to death, and over a million left Ireland for the United States, hoping to find work and build a new life. The Irish as a
group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for America did so with little money or food
("Coffin Ships"). They had no contacts and no jobs waiting for them; they simply believed that things had to be better in America than they were in Ireland. The Irish
that immigrated at this time were "the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S." ("Gone to America"). Since they had no one to help them
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