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Originally Posted by seven
Really? Did the natives of the U.S. send out an invitation to your granparents in some hunger-striken poor Itallian village requesting them to migrate to the U.S.? or did they approve their moving to their land after gracefully?  If neither, your grandparents came here as illegally as any .45 cents mexican Jose  |
All of my great grandparents came here through Ellis Island at one time or another. My Great Grandfather "Rocco Porcaro" was 10 when he arrived. He survived by shining shoes in NYC.
Years later he ended up in Chicago with his own, ahemmm, furniture store.