19 Jun 2022 9:40 pm
This looks like a legit, regulated operation with not much reason to operate outside of the law...... U.S. Immigration in the 1800s | Ancestry® Family History Learning HubCannonpointer » 19 Jun 2022, 9:11 pm » wrote: ↑ That is very likely false. No wave of immigrants has arrived with papers. Not your Irish nor your Italians nor your Vietnamese showed up with visas or by invite. Neither did your Germans, your Scandinavians or your Chinee. They were all bunch of boat people - refugees and DPs with their hats in their hands. The pejorative "wop" derives from a stamp at Ellis Island that read, "W.O.P," which stood for "with out papers."
The largest group of LEGAL immigrants were your ****** - your camaroons, your mandingos, your watusis. There were papers on every plate-lip, ring-neck and shovel-nose that landed on these shores.
Who knows how many were turned around.
This was during a time when the USA needed to add muscle to it's work force. There was a wealth of very trainable and motivated people who were for the most part "TURN KEY / SKILLED LABOR READY"