“Immigration really disrupted the social fabric back in Germany when the younger people left. We only know about this because someone saved these letters back in the 1800s and without them we have no clue as to what happened and what people had to deal with back then.”
Ray Grasshoff
““You don’t often hear about the hardships of those left behind back in Germany. This book tells of the deep loss and frustration felt by parents, brothers and sisters who stayed in Europe. Nearly two decades after his departure, Kempe’s family in Germany still clung to the hope that he would give up on Texas and return.””
“Since the new wave of immigration as a result of the 1965 changes, overall emigration appears to be somewhat lower than earlier in this century.”
Samuel P. Huntington
“Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants initially had no passports. A competent foreign office, moreover, would never have allowed its people to go to a place like the Yucatan where labor conditions were terrible.”
Wayne Patterson
“Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants initially had no passports, ... A competent foreign office, moreover, would never have allowed its people to go to a place like the Yucatan where labor conditions were terrible.”
“Never let the poor and destitute emigrant stop at New York - it will be his ruin”
Calvin Colton
“The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act.”
