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Statue of Liberty celebrates legal immigration
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America took in immigrants who were going to help BUILD America. Ellis Island screened would-be immigrants and allowed only healthy productive migrants into the United States. Merit-based LEGAL immigration only to those who will become productive AMERICANS.
Actually there was no such thing as illegal immigrants until about 1900.
Ellis Island was the former federal immigration processing station which processed over 12 million third class and steerage immigrants between 1892 and 1954 and was named after the former owner of the island, Samuel Ellis. Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892.
Early American Immigration Policies | USCIS
www.uscis.gov › … › Our History › Agency History
Americans encouraged relatively free and open immigration during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and rarely questioned that policy until the late 1800s. After certain states passed immigration laws following the Civil War, the Supreme Court in 1875 declared regulation of immigration a federal ...
https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-g...y-history/early-american-immigration-policies
www.uscis.gov › … › Our History › Agency History
Americans encouraged relatively free and open immigration during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and rarely questioned that policy until the late 1800s. After certain states passed immigration laws following the Civil War, the Supreme Court in 1875 declared regulation of immigration a federal ...
https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-g...y-history/early-american-immigration-policies
People who come to our shores in an orderly manner, get interviewed, examined, screened, and then let America decide who is best to let into our country and who is not.
That's funny, I always thought the plaque read "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore," don't recall any reference to what type of immigration
People who come to our shores in an orderly manner, get interviewed, examined, screened, and then let America decide who is best to let into our country and who is not.
I don't think there was any criteria or screening process during the Palatine Immigrations.