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Immigration in the United States Immigration has played an important role in the building and formation of America, because of this federal laws have resulted in mass immigration. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders account for a large number of Asians who now reside in the United States and consists of various other groups. These growing populations of immigrants include such groups as Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans, Hawaiians and Samoans, and people from India, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. According to 1990 census, there are currently over than 7.2 million Asian American and Pacific islanders who currently live in the United States. Many of these immigrants migrate to the United States in search for better living conditions, better jobs, and just better economic opportunity. Throughout history, Congress has enacted laws and has had to amend them to control the flow of both legal and illegal migration to the United States. Many proposition have been passed to support this halt in immigration Legislation was first enacted in an effort to control the number of applicants fleeing persecution; it permitted 205,000 refugees to enter the United States. Later on into the 20th century there would be laws repealing the older immigration laws and acts making it possible for many more foreigners to immigrate to the United States. Even with the new acts and laws that banned the older ones, no one can just walk right in and become a citizen. One must go through several examinations and tests before he or she can earn their citizenship.
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