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“They were men and women with surnames like Rodriguez, Gonzalez and Rivera, and they came from cities like Puerto Plata, Guayaquil and La Habana, many to settle in New York.
These hispanic surnames are among the thousands that appear in the Ellis Island database. While people who entered through Ellis Island are typically presented as only European, a closer glance reveals a significant immigration of Latinos in the early 1900`s, even of Puerto Ricans, who were made U.S. citizens in 1917.”
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