#immgrant

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Venezuelan Woman getting deported

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Lewis Hine’s Ellis Island Photographs

Many of these photos were taken between 1905 to 1909, but Hine also returned to Ellis Island in 1926 to take pictures, after immigration quotas were implemented.

His subjects posed but no less authentic and honest. Not to mention, getting permission from these immigrants would have been exceptionally difficult, considering both the many language barriers between Hine and his subjects, as well as the magnitude of people passing through Ellis Island at the time (about 5,000 immigrants per day at its peak).

Not unlike today, popular opinion of immigrants at the time wasn’t the most flattering. Hine’s work didn’t set out to reproduce the same old stereotypes of the day, nor create a spectacle of the “foreign” or “exotic.” He wanted to show immigrants as everyday people, just like “you and me,” trying to work hard and provide a better life for their families. His hope was for people to look upon his photos and feel, as Hine himself said, “the same regard for contemporary immigrants as they have for Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock.”

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#iamanimmigrant #immgrant #art #newyork (at 393 Broadway)

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Devious Maids' star, Dania Ramirez takes audiences inside her family’s story in a video titled, “An American Alien.”

WATCH: in the video produced for June, Immigrant Heritage Month 2015 by Welcome US, Dania talks with her family about their sacrifices, challenges, and accomplishments they met as they made America their home.

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Immigrant Problems

I just learned my elementary school bully bought the house i grew up in Mexico. #KickInTheGut