First Day Thoughts

  As I was looking through some of the articles I had read, I realized that there were so many rules to getting into the States.  I knew of the visas that people could get, but there are so many regulations that changed over the years.  There were also two acts that were created for the purpose of creating rules to get into the States.  It was interesting to read about how many people would try and get visas and just get denied, but people kept on trying to get visas.  Asians came in to California, and Europeans came in through Ellis Island.  Reading about how many people would come in through boats and just pile the boats to the top and make for new land hoping for a quick fresh start, which never came quickly, but most people came to a new good start after a few decades.  Many Irish were facing social discrimination from others just because they were Irish.  During WWII, Japanese people were not getting into the US and any Japanese person that was currently living in the US was moved over to "protection camps" which kept the Japanese away from the US or the other way around.  Many color differences in towns and cities that were known for immigrants. Many big towns had blocks meant for certain colors so many cities were discriminated within their towns.  I felt like having the different sectors did not allow people to mingle with others of different race nor did other colors get jobs in certain sections of cities because of the divide.  New immigrants were also treated poorly by those who lived int the US for a while.