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So in order to come to the US most people paid their own way or you were sponsored by somebody in the US to come and work for contract labor. This was back in the 1700's.
This was a huge filter because you had to get on a sailboat and suffer for a month or two and then you got to the US and every single day was working to not die.
Then there were steamboats, this allowed the mass importation of Irish and Germans. The only actual regulation to US immigration was one's own personal sense of responsibility as you were sort of responsible for these people's lives. If they couldn't hack it you were responsible for them being a burden on society
Burden on society. That's what most Irish and Italians and Jews were. Germans not so much but even the Germans that came to the US were politically retarded and caused problems for us.
Not to mention none of these people learned English before coming to the US. Total burden maxing.
The ports that were letting them in, like philly, Boston and NYC all knew that they were letting on cripples and mentally ill people and this was because they got paid for every head that came in.