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Our Immigration During 1904
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From F. P. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration

Aliens Entering Ellis Island Station

About 8,000 aliens were refused admission in 1904. Of this number 4,800 were paupers, 1,600 were diseased, and 1,500 contract laborers.