Americans are all immigrants. The first Americans migrated from Asia over 10,000 years ago. Later, Europeans settled along the East Coast of what is now the United States. Soon, they brought slaves from Africa.
Today, one million immigrants each year arrive in the United States from countries all around the world. Most come from Asia and Latin America.
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The links below will guide you to websites which explain immigration history and genealogy:
- Africans in America
- Ancestry.com
- Christoper Columbus: Extracts from Journal
- Ellis Island Online: American Family Immigration History Center
- Immigration: “America Stands Unique in the World” — by Carl Shusterman
- Immigration:
- Indentured Servants
- Migrations.org
- Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island (National Park Service)
- The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921-1965
- Tracing Immigrant Origins
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Carl Shusterman
Carl Shusterman served as an INS Trial Attorney (1976-82) before opening a firm specializing exclusively in US immigration law. He is a Certified Specialist in Immigration Law who has testified as an expert witness before the US Senate Immigration Subcommittee. Carl was featured in the February 2018 edition of SuperLawyers Magazine.
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