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Section size for Immigration to the United States (40 sections)
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(Top)	19,134	19,134
History	519	91,119
Colonial period	2,989	2,989
Origins of immigrant stock in 1790	19,492	19,492
Early United States era	3,272	3,272
Exclusion Era	2,709	2,709
Origins of immigrant stock in 1920	18,220	18,220
Since 1965	13,170	13,170
Modern reform attempts	1,962	18,516
First Trump administration policies	8,315	8,315
Biden administration policies	3,419	8,239
Border Security and Asylum Reform in the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024	4,820	4,820
Origins of the U.S. immigrant population, 1960–2016	12,232	12,232
Contemporary immigration	11,505	20,572
Origin countries	7,793	7,793
Charts	1,274	1,274
Demography	17	76,441
Extent and destinations	8,386	8,386
Origin	68,038	68,038
Effects of immigration	19,740	43,425
Economic impact	23,685	23,685
Public opinion	17,254	22,502
Religious responses	5,248	5,248
Legal issues	10,898	10,898
Immigration in popular culture	2,970	7,140
Immigration in literature	4,170	4,170
Documentary films	1,654	1,654
Overall approach to regulation	2,864	2,864
See also	687	687
Notes	36	36
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Further reading	49	11,195
Surveys	2,535	2,535
Before 1920	3,140	3,140
Recent: post 1965	5,471	5,471
External links	81	4,590
History	1,277	1,277
Immigration policy	1,062	1,062
Current immigration	1,471	1,471
Economic impact	699	699
Total	363,478	363,478

Flagcruft

Flags are excessively overused in this article. A lot of the immigrants left their original countries because they want to disassociate themselves with the regimes associated with those flags in the first place, and using those flags to represent them is not only inappropriate, but can be offensive. Furthermore, a lot of those flags are anachronistic, representing regimes or countries that didn't exist at the time the immigrants left. DHN (talk) 04:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and removed them. DHN (talk) 05:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Under Legal issues, add

In Department of State v. Muñoz, U.S. Supreme court opined that U.S. citizens do not have a fundamental liberty to admit their foreign spouses^[1]

207.96.32.81 (talk) 17:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Geardona (talk to me?) 00:44, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/spouses-of-us-citizens-lose-supreme-court-visa-denial-dispute

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May 2024 research conducted at Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

In regards to a recent edit, the author of the study is an economist named Elior Cohen. Is the author well known or is the report significant in terms of coverage as it relates to Immigration to the United States. Is there some explanation as to why this is DUE? Cheers DN (talk) 07:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation for JFK book

The term "nation of immigrants" redirects here, which I have no issue with. But we also have a similarly named article about A Nation of Immigrants, a 1958 book written by John F. Kennedy, so a hatnote is probably in order for this article. I'm an IP and this article is locked, so I can't edit this, but it would be nice if someone could add the following to the top of the article:

Thank you in advance. 188.176.168.141 (talk) 06:18, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Immigration / Emigration

This article should be called 'Emigration to the United States'. In my understanding of English one immigrates FROM somewhere and emigrates TO somewhere.92.23.108.234 (talk) 22:49, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/spouses-of-us-citizens-lose-supreme-court-visa-denial-dispute

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