Joanimaroni wrote:Sal wrote:Joanimaroni wrote:Sal wrote:Joanimaroni wrote:My great grandparents were immigrants. Legal immigrants.
When did they come over?
1880's.
Then unless they were criminals, prostitutes, or Asians, they were neither legal nor illegal.
They were just immigrants.
It was only with the Quota Acts of the 1920s that Congress established laws regarding normal arrivals.
Legal...
No such thing before the 1920s.