This might be a Neil Diamond song...

Because, "everywhere around the world, they're coming to America!"



Immigration is the cornerstone of American life, if you're reading this, you most likely descended from immigrants, its how the U.S. rolls.


In the 1840s and 50s it was Germans and Irish Catholics.

In the 1870s it was the Protestants from northern and western Europe.


Then in the 1870s there was a group known as "new immigrants.

Ladies and gentlemen....a brand new shiny immigrant!

 

So who were these new immigrants? They were often unskilled, poor, Catholic, and Jewish. They came from Italy, Greece, Poland, Hungary, and Russia.

By 1900 immigrants fromm Southern and Eastern Europe made up more than 70% of all immigrants.

That's a lot.

Many native born Americans felt threatened by these new people with their weird-o cultures.