The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

More foreign-born people call the United States home today than ever in history, new federal data shows, adding new context to the ongoing debate about border control, immigration and how many ...

Immigration tends to happen in waves ... and two million Irish emigrated. In the 1840s and 1850s, Irish residents made up more than 90 percent of Boston’s foreign-born population, according ...

Their platform sought to limit immigration and the influence of Catholicism ... electing mayors and state representatives in the late 1840s and early 1850s. After elections in 1854, they held ...

By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth ... sentiment when he suggested stemming the tide of Chinese immigration. A Chinese man responded with a letter to the Alta ...