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Three Reasons For Moving To The United States
My family was irish and we moved to the united states for multiple reasons. It wasn't really working out for my family in ireland. They had little money and low paying job. So they decided to go to the united states.

So they immigrated to the united states. It took them a while to get in. They had to stand in line for about a day. Then they were brought into a room and ask questions.

There was a lot of urbanization in the unites states. From all the immigrants coming to the united states. A lot of houses were being taken up for all the people coming to the united states. A lot of people were given new last names by the way they pronounced.

There are three reasons why they moved to the united states. The first reason is lack of opportunity.

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