Im sorry but I dont remember anyone coming from the old country was legal..there were no papers issue to people when getting off the boats..I sincerely doubt that Immigration services were waiting with papers to sign?? I as an african american sure dont remember that part in history where even slaves were given papers and made citizens of this country but yet this country was built by the hard work of slaves on plantations..I guess I must have been absent from class when they taught that 'PIECE' of history..