Migration To Ellis Island

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Ellis Island was a destination and a dream for many immigrants who wanted to start a new life. But for some Ellis island was a bad place because they had had heard stories about people being deported because of their bad manifests or documents about their history that where bad, for example like being a thief. But what had concerned most people was and the long, hard enduring journey that they had to face. “Ellis island was where all the immigrants went to find a new life” (Sandler, 7-8) people who went to Ellis Island had to always be ready to go home.
People wanted to come to Ellis Island to start a new life. In America, possibly because of pay, jobs, or homes, they thought that America had more possibility in life. In their homelands,

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