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How do Americans feel about Latin America immigration

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Answer:Nearly a century before the English founded Jamestown (1607), Spanish settlements peppered the Americas. Even as they forged indelible Hispanic imprints in large swaths of the American Southwest, Spanish settlers Hispanicized the South American continent, later joined by the Portuguese, in an “Iberian enterprise” that R. D. Rumbaut describes as “one of the greatest and deepest convulsions in history… [an] epochal movement … that poured the occidental nations of Europe over … the New World.”2 As such, Spain began the first wave of migration to what became the United States of America, and also populated one of its future sources of immigrants.

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It is the United States' fastest-growing trading partner, as well as its biggest supplier of illegal drugs. Latin America is also the largest source of U.S. immigrants, both documented and not. All of this reinforces deep U.S. ties with the region—strategic, economic, and cultural—but also deep concerns.

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