In the latest effort by a West European government to stem the tide of immigrants flowing into the region, many of them from war-ravaged, post-Communist Eastern Europe, a sweeping law takes effect in Britain on Monday that aims to make the country far less attractive to asylum seekers.

"In the early decades of the 20th century, you had massive numbers of immigrants flowing into New York, New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast," he said.

At the time, a wooden church that had been completed in 1857 had required two expansions to handle the increasing number of German immigrants flowing into the area.

This industrialisation brought a huge increase in population with rural Welsh workers and particularly Irish immigrants flowing in, attracted by the promise of rich earnings from the growing iron industry.

Since about 1970, Hispanics have been the dominant ethnic group of new immigrants flowing through the inner city neighborhoods of New York City, succeeding whites of European ancestries.

Meanwhile Edward Muller, a University of Pittsburgh history professor, said Magee was a classic machine boss who not only helped shape the city's growth when its industry and population were increasing rapidly, but also ensured his political future by taking care of the many new immigrants flowing into the region.

You were not sensible, or at least this Treaty is not sensible, with tides of immigrants flowing in unchecked.

The Altstadt was, at to this time, still the preferential quarter of the city, the Neustadt was settled mainly by immigrants flowing from the country into the increasing city.