It is a way of remembering and honouring where they came from.
immigrants came from various places after 1920.
Early immigrants got here on big steel boats, with sometimes a combined total of 20,000 would be Americans on board. Immigrants from Europe came in through Ellis Island while people from Asia came to America through Angel Island.
20 Million immigrants passed through Ellis Island before its closing in 1954
When immigrants came into the U.S. they had to enter through ellis island or angel island because if the immigrants tried to just run off they would have nowhere else to go
Eastern and southeastern Europe
If you mean immigrants traveling to the US, then the answer is many places. Some places they came from were Italy, Sweden, other European countries, Asia, and in the present day Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Those are only a few of the many places they came from.
Mexican immigrants came into the country.
The immigrants in Canada came from China, while others came from Ireland and France.
Immigrants traveled to many places across America and may not have had someone to stay with, so they stayed where ever they could afford to stay. If they had any, immigrants stayed with family or friends after they came to America. Other immigrants came as indentured servants, so their employer provided living quarters. Some came to claim land to homestead, so they would travel to the area which was soon to be open for homesteading to stake their claim.
31 million
To welcome new immigrants when they came in through Ellis Island.