communism and immigration?

Question

for school i have to do a project on communism and immigration in the US during the 1930s. im having a hard time find info about it. so if you know anything about it or you know any websites i can go to that would be great! thankssss :]

Answer 1

I think your teacher may really mean the 1920s. The real relevance was during that time period.



Many Americans stood firmly against immigration during the 1920s. Although nativist groups such as the Know-Nothings and the American Protective Association had been around since the 1800s, Congress had rarely given in to these groups and had done little to stem the flow of immigrants into the United States. All this changed in 1921, however, when Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in response to the unceasing wave of new immigrants into the country.

As its name implied, the Emergency Quota Act established a specific, unalterable number of immigrants from each country who would be allowed to enter the United States every year. Specifically, each immigrant’s country of origin could send only 3 percent of the number of persons from that country who were living in the United States in 1910; all other immigrants would be shipped back to the countries from which they came. Three years later, Congress repealed the Emergency Quota Act and passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which changed each foreign country’s annual immigrant quota to 2 percent of the number of persons from that country who were living in the United States in 1890.

In general, immigration had been a boon to the rapidly expanding U.S. economy during the nineteenth century, as immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and southern Europe had provided invaluable labor in city factories. The Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924, however, effectively slammed the door shut on the bulk of new immigrants. The effect was enormous and reduced the number of yearly arrivals by about 500,000 annually—blocking almost all southern and eastern Europeans. The number of immigrants from northern and western Europe, on the other hand, remained relatively steady, between 150,000 and 200,000 per year. These laws implemented the first severe limitations on immigration after nearly a century without much restriction.



Congress passed these new restrictive immigration laws in part because of the growing fear of socialism that was spreading through southern and eastern Europe. After Russia collapsed to communism in the Russian Revolution of 1917, panic swept across the United States. In the Red Scare of 1919–1920, Americans became suspicious that they might fall victim to a communist plot to take over the country. The two main methods that workers’ unions used to create fair labor agreements—striking and collective bargaining—came to be seen as tools of socialists and anarchists. As a result, labor unions were frowned upon and dwindled in number and size. Several hundred Americans who affiliated with the Communist and Socialist parties were arrested, as were labor organizers and others who criticized the U.S. government.

The Socialist Party’s growing membership in the United States was also perceived as a threat, especially since labor organizer Eugene V. Debs received nearly a million popular votes in the presidential election of 1920. Even though the Red Scare eventually subsided, the fear of socialism and communism in the United States never truly went away. It would eventually resurface in the 1950s and throughout the Cold War.



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Answer 2

I think you are going to have a problems in combining the topics without knowing how the world was in the 30's.



The 30's was the age of totalitarian which were from communist countries world wide and for most part and immigrants came here were from those countries.



Were the immigrants that came here in the 30's were communist, but one also has to understand that is all they knew.

There were no radios, TV and their papers were managed news and people didn't travel out of their hometowns except for the privileged rich so they knew nothing different.



The immigrants that were coming during the great wave of Immigration 1890's to 1925 were the most affluent and to get their family members to come here they told them the USA roads were lined in Gold. They were rather disappointed to find out it was cobble stones and dirt. Those were the less affluent and uneducated and were more communist leaning.



I don't know where you would find this on the wed. I did a lot of reading in grad school on economics which cover communist theory and the history of it. I still refer back to books when doing research.

If you can't find it. I would research each topic separately then combine them.

Answer 3

Does America allow immigration so that anyone who doesn't like liberal fascism can move to Alaska or Hawaii? Chinese people are free to move wherever they wish, so long as they conform with appropriate regulations. Hong Kong and Macau both have restrictions for anyone (Mainlander or foreigner) who wishes to reside there. An employment or student visa is required. China is a land of vast economic opportunity with a stable one-party socialist political system. China has the fastest growing economy on Earth and has experienced outstanding social and political reforms over the last 30 years. China is "communist" in name only. Frankly, China is much more capitalist than any western country. All of the "Made in China" products sold around the world are the result of Chinese capitalism.

Answer 4

A high illegal immigrant population is method of stealing from employees.



Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.



Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).



Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.



Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.



Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents and false government.

Answer 5

communism doesn't have a role in immigration policies -- i am not sure what your teacher is trying to get at. immigration during the depression is minimal -- at most like 25,000 a year. most of the 30s we were losing population. a horrible economy enhanced by bad immigration policies (like other people stated) and trade tariffs like smoot-hawley flatlined growth in the united states for the decade -- no jobs, no immigrants.



in the 50s the propaganda machine known as joseph mccarthy started claiming american moral fibre was being corrupted by communists -- but most were american citizens labelled communists much like early salem labelled people witches. in actuality he was an ethnicist -- he was irish and trying to establish an irish stronghold in the government. maybe thats what your teacher is referring to. until the 50s if you were a communist you were more likely to be our friend than enemy -- the soviet union was on the same side as the united states in both world wars. our relationship with communists was really kind of moot though -- they were far away and we didn't much care what they did.

Answer 6

Feels more like communism now and ILLEGAL immigration to satisfy the needs of the elite

Answer 7

There is a whole bunch of sites if you just google it or use the yahoo, search engine.