Waves of weary and hopeful immigrants arrived in this city to do just that.

She is one among many immigration consultants, lawyers and fly-by-night operators selling their services to hopeful immigrants.

The study presents a generally upbeat portrayal of the children of immigrants as ambitious, hopeful and resilient in the face of discrimination.

Already weakened by the journey and by the lack of food, according to some survivors, the hopeful immigrants sometimes find themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous smugglers.

It was a melancholic walk past the graves of hopeful immigrants, of children, of those never found.

Though the elderly tend the past today in La Boca they have been joined by a new group of young and hopeful immigrants from poorer nearby countries, mainly Bolivia and Paraguay.

Act One As a ship bearing hopeful immigrants steams toward Ellis Island, a lone passenger reflects on the life he has left behind ("I Remember").

He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel.

The palatial red and white building that received 12 million hopeful immigrants, distorted under water and seen through slow-drifting fake snow, is the very stuff memory is made of.

Behind them lived young, hopeful immigrants on their way up, middle-aged has-beens on their way down, and too many running like hell just to stay in place.