Friedrich Trump (Donald Trump’s grandfather) came to the country during the big wave of German immigration to the United States. The 1880s to the early 1900s was a period of high immigration for young migrants under adult age. Immigrants, particularly Northern Europeans, were not only welcome; they were needed.
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