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Effects Of Chinese Immigration On American Immigration

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Joseph and Henrietta LaGrotta , immigrated to North America from Italy in 1885, the most likely the reason, for their immigration was to escape rural poverty. In 1908 James and Helen Pitcher immigrated to Newfoundland, Canada from Ireland then they had immigrated to New York in 1924. They had most likely immigrated to escape poverty and disease. Both immigrant groups of my family possibly came through Ellis Island to enter the

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