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Doctors at Ellis Island made immigrants with tuberculosis symptoms turn around and get back on their boats, but that may not be the kind of thing you have in mind?
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I think there was a fair amount of rhetoric about "sick immigrants" in the early 20th c ("they bring disease" etc) which caused those doctors at immigration ports to have the power to turn people around. So the phenomena are linked. But I see the distinction.
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