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Many were Jewish. Eventually, “between 1907 and 1914, approximately ten thousand Jews entered the United States through the port of
Galveston, Texas.” There was a push for Jewish immigrants to enter the United States through Galveston rather than Ellis Island because “the vast majority of Jewish
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greatly reduced the number of immigrants entering through the Port of
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