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East Coast: Those from Europe generally came through East Coast facilities. More than 70 percent of all immigrants entered through New York City. Throughout the late 1800s, most immigrants arriving in New York entered at the Castle Garden depot near the tip of Manhattan. They came to the U.S. to leave the economic hardships, famine from their homeland, and look for jobs. This led to an extreme influx of immigrants coming from Europe to the west coast, and the people at the boarder couldn't handle this many immigrants.
West Coast: Asian immigrants generally entered through West Coast centers. With economic competition came feelings of racism. These feelings were accompanied by anti-Chinese riots and pressure in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result of this pressure was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century.
