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Texas National Guard can now arrest and detain people who illegally enter the US • Feb. 3, 2025, 7:16 PM ET (AP)
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United States: immigration
immigrant family, New York, 1889
Cobh, Ireland: emigrants
immigration debate
Madeleine Albright on immigrating to the United States
Learn about former U.S. immigration center Ellis Island and diversity of immigrants processed there
See pictures of immigrants entering the United States of America via New York and Boston
Discover how European American settlers drove Native Americans and bison from the Midwest and transformed the land
Meet diverse immigrants in the Pacific Region and follow an immigrant Vietnamese family in California
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