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Immigration

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION, INC./NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Immigration

Open borders has been as much a part of the story of the United States as continual denigration and persecution of the very people who avail themselves of the "new world." Despite being landlocked, Arkansas has had its fair share of immigrant communities, from the French settlers who bartered with Native Americans to the recent influx of Hispanic migrants attracted to the farm fields and chicken plants of Arkansas's Delta and Ozarks, respectively.