Middle School
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Pull Factors in Immigration
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus.
This quote is written on the base of the Statue of Liberty. It welcomes immigrants to the "land of opportunity," the United States. For many years, freedom in the U.S. pulled immigrants to this country.
Pull factors help emigrants decide where to move to. Pull factors are conditions in another country that attract people to move there. Pull factors give people the idea that life would be better somewhere else.
