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On June 6, 1881, a group of passengers from Saxony, Germany, disembarked in New York City from the ship Silesia, arriving from Hamburg, Germany. They entered the United States through Castle Garden which processed 3,500 people a day. The facility was created to protect immigrants from the unsavory characters who had roamed the open wharves at will to take advantage of gullible newcomers.