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Below are the
headlines for eleven articles published between 1891 and
1910, each discussing the "immigration question." Simply
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the individual article(s) that interests you, or start from
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From an
article in the Sun newspaper, New York City, dated April 21,
1891:
The Hebrew Influx.
Attempts to Regulate It so that It Shall Not be Too Heavy.
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From an
article in the New-York Daily Tribune, New York City, dated
November 23, 1902:
SMUGGLING IMMIGRANTS INTO THIS COUNTRY
HOW UNDESIRABLE PERSONS GET INTO
CANADA
AND THEN ARE RUN OVER THE BORDER.
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From the New York Tribune
Illustrated Supplement,
May 10, 1903:
MORE IMMIGRANTS WILL LAND ON THESE SHORES IN 1903
THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR, EXPERTS ESTIMATE
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From The World newspaper,
Tuesday Evening,
May 19, 1903:
JEWS FLOCK IN THOUSANDS TO AMERICA.
Refugees from All Parts of Europe Spurred to
Emigrate Owing to the
Fear of Renewal of Massacres that Disgraced Kishineff.
ADVANCE GUARD ARRIVES
Troops and Artillery Displayed on Public Streets in
Russia
to Prevent Any More Outbreaks of the Lawless Element.
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From The World newspaper,
Thursday Evening,
May 21, 1903:
SOME OF THE 6,000 IMMIGRANTS WHO SWARMED INTO PORT
TO-DAY,
BEING LANDED AT THE RECEPTION PIER ON ELLIS ISLAND.
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From The New-York Daily Tribune,
dated July 24, 1903:
PAUPER JEWS COMING.
RESULT OF KISHINEFF.
Devious Means of Entry--Contract Labor Laughed At.
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From The New-York Daily Tribune,
dated July 29, 1903:
IMMIGRATION TRAFFIC.
Abolition of Consular Supervision--Safeguards
Urgently Needed.
London, July 15.
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From The World
newspaper, June 18, 1904:
IMMIGRANT ARMY LANDS TO-MORROW
Eight Great Steamers, Crowded with
Steerage Passengers,
Will Be Unloaded at Ellis Island During the Day.
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From the New York Tribune, dated
December 17, 1905:
BIG WAVE OF JEWS COMING.
American Fund for the Relief of Those So Bitterly
Oppressed In Russia
Will Be Used to Bring Thousands Here.
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From an
article in the New York Tribune, dated
December 18, 1905:
IMMIGRANTS PATCHED
UP.
TRACHOMA GETTING IN.
Foreign Doctors Make Undesirable Aliens Able to
Enter.
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From the New-York Daily
Tribune,
dated December 18, 1910:
TO DECREASE AND CLARIFY STREAM OF INCOMING ALIENS
Such is Plan of Immigration Commission, and Many
Leading Americans Agree
That Congestion in Industrial Communities Causes Serious Ills.
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