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Tierra_y_Libertad

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2. My mother and grandmother got here in 1919 to steal American jobs.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 12:48 PM

Sep 2014

My grandmother started from Ireland, then England, then Canada, then California.

And, yes, there were Americans back then who wouldn't scrub floors and toilets for low wages and jobs were plentiful for immigrants.

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