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Around 1670 the first significant group of Germans came to the colonies, mostly settling in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1709 a group known as the Palatines made the journey from the Palatinate region of Germany.
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People of European and/or Asian decent immigrated to the United States in the mid-1800's. Most came to the U.S. with in search of a better life
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by 1920 more than 4 million Italians had come to the United States, and represented more than 10 percent of the nation’s foreign-born population.
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Mexican immigration is drastically increasing in the US