re: #535 JacksonTn

Right …I know that they were there at Ellis Island …I am talking about after that … after they got off the Island …when in our history have we gone to the length we are now for people coming from Mexico …

I don’t know, but if there were not, then those immigrants must have had a really hard time. Today in some Brooklyn communities you still encounter old people who only speak Italian or Russian or Yiddish or Spanish. They have a really limited experience of what it is to be American, but they are still valuable members of the community.