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Article: Immigration
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- Dictionary of American History
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IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION.
Except for some 2.5 million Native Americans and Alaska natives, the 281 million persons recorded in the 2000 census are immigrants and their descendants. Some 70 million immigrants have come to what is now the United States, beginning with the Spanis
h settlers in Florida and New Mexico in the late sixteenth century. The United States only began counting immigrants in 1819, so the numbers before that time are problematic.
Table 1
Immigration by Centuries
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| 16th
–
18th century
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1,000,000
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| 19th century
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19,000,000
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| 20th century
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47,000,000
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| Total (legal or legalized)
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67,000,000
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| Illegal Immigration (at least)
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3,000,000
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| Total
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70,000,000
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