What was the peak year of immigration?

Question

What was the peak year of immigration?

Answer 1

Immigration to what country?

Answer 2

1907 was the peak year for legal immigration into the US.  It seems these numbers may have been eclipsed in the last few years if you take into account illegal immigration.

http://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tj...

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/immi...

http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back130...

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AFP/2005/12/1...

Answer 3

1880's-1930's. Once America began to develop an industrialized economy and transition form agriculture, the appeal of many more well paying, easier laboring jobs caught the eye of Europeans in particular in this time period.

Answer 4

Right after the "Potato famine" in Ireland, the Irish started to migrate to America to save their very lives. Approximately four million Irish immigrated within a two year period.

     This created such a tax on the American public, rents, food, jobs, etc, that the government had to finally start a immigration law and start putting quotas on how many could come into the country.

       People, entire families, were living on the streets. Jobs were non-existent, crime and wholesale starvation was rampant. The Movie, "Gangs of New York" was not to unreal.

       I would think the peak was between the 1840 and 1850