“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome to participate in all of our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the employment.”
(from Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, quoted by Soerens and Hwang)
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Great stuff! Immigration history is featured on my site HispanicNashville.com as well:
hispanicnashville.com/labels/history.html
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