








Immigrant children on the grounds of the Immigrants Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Young immigrant girl in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Immigrants from the Ottoman Empire in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1902
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

An immigrant family enjoying lunch, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1905 Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Arrival of immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1912
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Two "castaways" from Syria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1906
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Interior patio in the home of Syrian immigrants, Tres Sargentos Street, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1902
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

"Gypsies" arriving in Buenos Aires, March 1911
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

Senegalese immigrants arrived in Buenos Aires destined for work in a sugar factory in the northwestern province of Tucumán, April 1899
Credit: Archivo General de la Nación Argentina

A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border with Mexico. It translates: "I thought that it would be easy for my son to get papers [e.g. legal status/work rights] in the North. It was not true. Our children are our future. Let’s protect them.”

