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Huddled Masses

Published on January 19, 2013 by in 1900s

Today an obsolete door was closed. When the immigration processing center at New York’s Ellis Island was closed on this day in 1954, it had long ago ceased to be relevant, having opened in 1892 to check the massive influx of immigrant groups who were coming to America. During that time, millions of Catholics, Jews,

 
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