What is the approximate timeframe of immigrants coming through Ellis Island? (Like the main flow)?
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it was like an assembly line process....a few hours. if they were sick, they would send them to the hospital ward there and give them a little time to see if they would get better and they could try again in a few days. but it wasn't a months and months and years and years long process like it is now. they got off the boat, waited in line, information was taken, and that was it. there was no reason NOT to do it legally, it was so easy.
The Great Wave was from about 1880 to about 1920, I believe. You could google 'great wave' and 'immigraion'.
apparently there is no time frame since they don't have to go through Ellis island anymore .....just go to the borders for the main flow.
The immigration station at Ellis Island was open from 1892-1954. After 1924, only displaced persons or war refugees came in via Ellis Island. (In 1924, the Johnson-Reed act was passed, restricting immigration for any country to the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States.)
1907 was the year immigration through Ellis Island peaked.
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