Read this central idea found in Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman. Immigrants were often treated poorly on their journey to a new life.

Which line from the text best supports this central idea?

Most of these immigrants were poor.
The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it.
Scowling and gesturing, they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding us into separate groups as though we were animals.
Filing into an enormous inspection hall, the immigrants formed long lines separated by iron railings.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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