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Q: Why did some Americans disapprove of immigrants?
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Why do some Americans disapprove of nafta?

Some Americans disapprove of NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement. This is because many feel that the influx of products from Canada, Mexico, and South America devalue the wares from the United States.


Why did some Americans in the southwest call for repatriation of Mexican immigrants?

white americans wanted access to jobs that immigrants held.


What was one reason that native born Americans felt more threatened by the new immigrants than they had with the old immigrants?

The ''new'' immigrants brought different cultures and languages. (*NoVaNeT*)


Many Americans resented immigrants on the grounds that they?

Many Americans have resented immigrants throughout American history because they believed that immigrants were taking jobs by offering to work for less money. The irony of the situation is that many of those people were immigrants or their parents were immigrants at some point.


What did americans do to get rid of immigrants?

It is very hard for the Americans to actually get rid of the immigrants.


Did the Alien sedition acts cause many Americans to disapprove of the federalists?

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Do African Americans qualify as immigrants?

The great majority of African-Americans were born in America and therefore are not immigrants. There ancestors were immigrants at some point, however, that is also true of everyone else in the western hemisphere. The human race originated in Africa.


Why do Americans many Americans reacted to the difficulties of the postwar years by targeting immigrants?

the americans blamed the immigrants for there economic failure. they also blamed them from taking job from americans. but i find this wrong because those americans were immigrants once or the family they came from were.


Why are Americans accepting to legal immigrants?

This is a country of immigrants except for Native Americans. Our Constitution established that all are welcome.


Who took advantage of the homestead act?

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Americans began to fear foreigners and recent immigrants because of the what?

Americans began to fear immigrants because of a perception that the immigrants were a threat to American job security. There is a thought that immigrants depress wages, and this affects the American worker.


Why were the 1890's a problem for some Americans?

Immigrants streamed into the halls island in the shadow of the statue of liberty