Immigration was in times of Sailships very different than today. The U.S.A. always was an immigrant nation and it also always struggled with immigration. Native Americans were friend and enemy, Africans good workers and slaves, Europeans gentlemen and masters.
Immigration meant to take the most important goods and often not more than a suitcase, buy a transatlantic ticket to never come back.
But why was that?
Was it mainly financially, because the horseride to New York and ticket to London with another horseride to somewhere in Europe was too expensive or was it too much time needed?
How many humans today, but in percentage because of population growth, can afford immigrating to the USA and how much slower were they visiting were they left from and what does the resulting values mean to migration and immigration politics in the spirit of the Founding Fathers.
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