Mental testing at Ellis Island
Due to the presumed threat of cheap foreign labor on American workers, a "literacy test" was imposed as a condition of entry to the U.S. (DNAi location: Chronicle > Threat of the Unfit)
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15797. Immigrant family with numbered tags
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