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To: elmatador who wrote (18280)	5/16/2007 4:35:29 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220195

The right* immigrants to the US in Ellis Island* What do you mean by the "right" immigrants..? Although they were admitted legally (with around 40% eventually returning to their homelands...) there are marked differences between the period of when Ellis island was active and now. The US manufacturing base was dramatically expanding then.. it is contracting now... there were basically few social services.... immigrants who went on state aid for more than a short period of time were deported from the US... Even so there were marked (more so than now..) objections to mass immigration resulting in an effective shutdown of the open door policy in the mid 1920s (a policy which was adopted by much of the rest of the Americas also FYI...) anyway then as now... it's not about immigrants.. it's about cheap labor. PS.. my father and grandfather crossed the Laredo land bridge from Mexico into the US in 1937 after Ellis island was closed.