M ore immigrants have come to Utah from the British Isles than from any other area. They have become so fundamental a part of the state that their story is involved in most aspects of its history. British trappers and traders, along with their Canadian and American counterparts, helped open the West for settlement. Charles McKay saw the Great Salt Lake as early as 1825 while exploring northern Utah.
Among the early Mormon pioneers were many who emigrated from the British Isles before they affiliated with the Latter-day Saints. Others were among early converts of the LDS British Mission, established in 1837, who had emigrated to the Mormon city of Nauvoo, Illinois. William Clayton, for example, quickly became active at the heart of Nauvoo society; many other new immigrants remained more on the periphery. Their later immigration to Utah was simply part of the general movement west of the Latter-day Saints from 1846 onward.
As their fellow believers left Nauvoo, thousands of British Mormons were poised across the Atlantic awaiting the announcement of a new gathering place so that the process of emigration might resume. The heralded possibility that they might settle on Vancouver Island failed to materialize; instead, beginning in 1848, they were directed to the Salt Lake Valley, where new headquarters had been established.
Spectacular growth in the LDS British Mission coincided with the founding of the new gathering place. The mission tripled in membership from 1846 to 1851, despite heavy emigration in the last two of those years. Later, fleeing to Zion in troubled times, more Mormons left the British Mission for Utah in the Crimean War years of 1853 to 1856 than in any other four-year period. Assistance from the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, with the benefit of creative financing by Mormon leaders, also reached all-time highs during the same period. Hefty LDS emigration came again during the American Civil War, an economically difficult time for the British Isles. The last major thrust of LDS emigration from Britain was in 1868 as part of a colonizing effort to reinforce Mormon numbers in Utah prior to the completion of the transcontinental railroad, which would open the territory to easier access for the outside world. By that time more than 31,000 Latter-day Saints had left the British Isles for Utah.
The 1870 census showed the British-born Latter-day Saints at their apogee in proportion to the total population of Utah Territory. Nearly a quarter
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What if there was a cold war in which the United States, the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire allied themselves against a communist country that controlled most of Europe consisting mainly of Germany, France and Italy, with the exception of some countries
How will the effects be on the world?
This is a hypothetical question: Since the US already underwent the journey from states to a federation, Europe slowly goes in a similar direction, but not there yet. What would be your advice to us if we wanted to make such a federation one day?
Let me just start off by saying that I don't mean for this to come off as a loaded question, even though below I'll give some background on my reasons for asking this question that might make it seem like that. I'm mostly asking this question to see how far my perception of the situation differs from reality.
From my personal experience, it seems as though left-leaning voters and politicians in America have a tendency--often justifiably, in my opinion--to wax poetic about the policies that a select region of foreign countries (mentioned in title) employ in their domestic societies, ranging from healthcare, gun control, labor rights, social welfare programs, prison reform, etc.
But one of the things that many of those aforementioned countries seem to be conservative on in comparison to the American Left is immigration. Unlike the US, most of them don't have birthright citizenship, and those that do have restrictions on it. Even in a place like Canada, there's a point-based merit system for legal immigration that's supposedly more stringent than America's. Employing such a measure in America seems like it would be a right-wing proposal.
On Reddit, the Mainstream Left of the American political spectrum is commonly derided for not actually being left to the degree of other OECD countries, and actually being right-leaning in comparison (statements like "Bernie Sanders would be center-left at best outside of America" are common refrains). But immigration seems to be one issue where Democrats and progressives in the US are actually more liberal (in the American sense of the word, at least) than their supposed foreign counterparts.
I'm looking for answers mostly in respect to ease of legal immigration and government tolerance towards illegal immigration in terms of deportation policy, pathways to citizenship, etc.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
For the past couple of years, and with the current pandemic as the reason, permanently moving across the Atlantic Ocean has always been a dream of mine. The main reason for deciding to move is to seek a better quality of life as much as possible. But as someone who is diagnosed with autism, my experience with relocating might be different from what a neurotypical person might experience. Knowing Europe is a continent, it would be nice to hear from autistic Europeans and autistic U.S. citizens who are planning to move, in the process of moving, or are already living somewhere in the continent.
Recently, at least in my circle, opinion has been changing on the United States and it is no longer seen as the best place to immigrate too due to various factors such as the treatment of immigrants (lots of bigots), astronomical healthcare/education costs, low vacation times, high cost of living, and just a general sense that the US is in decay/declining.
However, you can’t deny the better wages and opportunities than most countries that the US has.
Have you noticed public sentiment change in regards to where is the preferred place of immigration?
Welfare policies in the U.S. are often labeled as socialism and, as a result, lose public support. Why isn't this also the case in other NATO countries that also fought communism during the Cold War?
Should the EU become its own Sovereign Democratic Country with a federal state system ?
