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A vast black market in human beings feeds corruption, abuse, and violence as the poor and the oppressed try to make it to nations with greater freedom and economic opportunity. Even when most immigrant waves came from Europe in the nineteenth century, they represented a wide variety of languages, religions, cultural heritages, and ethnic backgrounds.
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legmin Little, Brown * 2006 * 374 pages * $28.00 (Canadian)
Reviewed by Richard M. EbelingBetween 1840 and 1920, over 60 million people emigrated to North and South America, mostly from Europe. More than 40 million of them came to the United States. They came to escape political oppression, religious persecution, and economic stagnation due to the heavy hand of government on commerce, trade, and industry ...See the full content of this document
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