Immigrants Migration

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Immigrants moving to America faced many hardships. As they started arriving on US shores they knew it would be like they were starting over again. When immigrants showed up they were taken to Ellis island. Then they were inspected for medical purposes and background checks.They had to take a test to be accepted into America. Once they were able to even enter America they had to learn english, find a job, make money, and find a place to live that they could afford. There were many long steps immigrants had to take to that lasted almost two days.As immigrants filed through Ellis Island's large registry room, doctors would briefly scan each immigrant for obvious physical or mental health issues. For an unfortunate 2 percent, it meant exclusion

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