I agree with most of what you wrote in that post. This part, however, does not ring true:
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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
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...It was appropriate for the times as it was not expected or anticipated that just anyone had the means to travel by sailing vessels or steamship from Europe to America - ‘cause you didn’t come from anywhere else at the time.
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There was quite a bit of non-European immigration going on during this time. It just wasn't though Ellis island, so the Statue of Liberty (understandably) became associated with European immigration.
And regarding the "means to travel" - that was not a very high bar at all. Some of my ancestors came over as indentured servants because they otherwise could not afford passage.
Again, they were fleeing shitholes that happened to be European shitholes...