Who were the 3rd wave of immigrants?
* Eastern Europeans - Albanians, Belorussians, Bosnian Muslims, Bulgarians, Carpatho-Rusyns, Cosacks, Croats, Czechs, Estonians, Finns, Georgians, Gypsies, Hungarians, Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, Macedonians, North Caucasions, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Wends, and Ukrainians.
* Jews - Russia
* East Asians - China, Japan
* West Indies and Mexico

Reasons for 3rd wave of immigration
* Eastern Europeans
  * Rising population, scarce land
  * Sense of adventure and reform
  * Rumors and advertisements of better land 
* Jews
  * Driven out of Russia by pogroms
* West Indies and Mexico ?

Issues surrounding 3rd wave of immigration
* Immigrants were willing to work at lower wages than 'native-born'
* Tend to be unskilled and in poverty
* Social Darwinism indicates that they are lazy
* Prefer their native language and customs, which the natives have grown out of

Who the new immigrants are
* Hispanics - Mexico
* Asian - China, Japan, Laos
* Europe
* Africa

Reasons for modern immigration
* Hispanics
  * Wages - Average weekly earnings in Mexico is $20, average in US is $280
* Asians
* Europeans
* Africans

Issues surrounding modern immigration
* Competition for jobs - Center For Immigration studies claims low-skilled workers lose $1800 a year because of competition

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