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       United States is inhabited by a lot of immigrants. About eighty million people migrated to the Untied States between the early 1800s and 2015. There are three main eras of immigration that the United States has experienced
- Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth centuries
- Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

       The Untied States population was 3.9 million and 950,000 of them were immigrants from Europe and Sub- Saharan Africa. In 1790 sixty-two percent of immigrants came from Europe and thirty- eight percent were Sub- Saharan and came to America as slaves. Most Europeans were voluntary migrants, but Africans typically were not.

       During the mid 1800s most migrants came from Ireland and Germany. The migration rate jumped from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand people. Later Scandinavia started to migrate to he U.S. and soon enough southern and eastern Europe started to make their way over to the United States. The annual immigration to the Untied States reached one million. and two thirds were southern and eastern European.

        Immigration started to decline in the 1930s and 1940s during the Great Depression and World War II. After that immigration started to increase steadily and during the first decade of the twenty-first century immigration surged to historical heights. Most immigrants today are Latin American. thirteen million Latin Americans have migrated to the U.S. in the past half century. Seven million Asians migrated to the U.S. in the past half century and most are from China, Vietnam, India, and the Philippines. Mexico makes up most of the immigration rate in the United States. They exceeded Germany in 2006. After the U.S government took control over the huge amount of immigrants coming in to the U.S., They issued visas to all the people without proper and legal documentation.