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While Middle Easterners had been immigrating into the US before we were even a nation the first significant period started in 1870 and lasted until 1924.
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More than half of all of the Immigrants lived in New York or California by this time.
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When word caught on that the U.S. was in a great depression immigrants from the Middle East tended to avoid Immigrating to the U.S.
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The first major immigration from the Middle east to the U.S. ends in 1924 due to the Johnson-Reed Quota Act which nearly ended immigration from the middle east.
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The end of the Great Depression in 1940 and a war breaking out in the Middle East in 1948 sparks the immigration once again
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Only 80,000 of 750,000 total immigrants came to US
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Middle east immigrants stop flooding into US.
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After 19 years of less than 20 thousand total immigrants arriving in the US immigration is again sparked.
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The attacks on the WTC leads to the US government putting a halt on Middle East Immigration.
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4 years after attacks immigration once again sparks bringing over 35000 more immigrants to the US.
