nate segregationist, Leidholdt states, it was as Cannato might have provided more data on though she embraced “her new persona with deportations, however, to buttress his conten- all the conviction and fire she had invested in tion that prejudice did not usually influence the inspectors’ decisions. He argues that more often than her longtime liberal perspective by siding with management against labor.” Reverting to “her not the inspectors bent the law to admit immi- apartheid upbringing” in becoming an obsti- grants when it seemed like the just thing to do. At describes are intended to illustrate his belief the time, she made “an abrupt about-face from that immigration inspectors were not typical- ly heartless. (New York: HarperCollins.ĥ44 The Journal of American History September 2010 two considerable limitations: a lingering men- most of the immigration cases that Cannato tal illness and dependence on her family. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island.
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