The Statue of Liberty was the first sight for thousands of immigrants who came to the United States by boat across the Atlantic, especially from Europe in the later 1800s and early 1900s.
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Answer: Mostly Italians but also Polish, Russian (from USSR), German and Irish immigrants.
Explanation:
Italian immigrants were fleaing Italy due to grinding rural poverty in Southern Italy and Sicily. Therefore they were amongst the first people to have seen the statue of liberty when first ariving to America.
