Chapter 365 Fraudulent Immigration
The fire burned for two days and two nights until a torrential rain put out the horrible fire. However, two-thirds of Chicago's urban area was completely turned into a scorched earth, and hotels, commercial buildings, opera houses, banks, and post offices were all engulfed by the fire.
Charred bodies could be seen everywhere on the streets, but more people were burned to ashes by the fire. Others fled to the shore of Lake Michigan in panic to escape the fire, jumped into the lake but unfortunately drowned. Lake Michigan was filled with floating corpses, and the streets near the Chicago branch of the Hechingen Bank were crowded with victims.
To prevent the outbreak of the plague, bank employees disinfected the area around the bank for two weeks and set up a refugee resettlement site around the bank.
Although the Chicago branch is not built in the city center, it has more financial resources to spend on land and buildings, so it is the largest bank in Chicago. There are open areas around it for greening, just like the mainland of East Africa.
"Mr. President, this is a telegram from the New York headquarters!" The secretary interrupted Odyssey, who was drinking tea in the office in a good mood.
Odyssey: "Are they well-informed?"
Although most communications in Chicago were cut off, communications in the West Side have now been restored. In addition to the West Side, the yards on the south side of Chicago, most of the city's railways, and the docks, mills, and lumberyards along the Chicago River were not affected by the fire.
Odysseus took the telegram and read it. He frowned and said, "Oh, I really can't have a moment of leisure. And how come I didn't know that there was an East African Immigration Office in Chicago? Have you heard of it?"
The secretary shook his head and said, "Mr. President, you haven't heard of it, so it's even more impossible for me to have heard of it."
Odyssey: "Forget it, let's not dwell on this issue. The New York headquarters requires us to cooperate with the immigration department. However, immigrating from the United States to other regions feels really dreamy!"
Odyssey had no doubts about whether it could succeed, as the Great Chicago Fire burned up the life savings of many Chicago citizens.
The streets are now full of refugees. If no one takes care of them in a short period of time, even getting a meal will become a problem. In fact, this situation has already happened. The robberies in the West District have not stopped from yesterday to now. It is better to rely on God's appearance than to rely on the US government. Now fighting on the front line of rescue in Chicago are the rescue organizations and churches spontaneously formed by Chicago citizens.
It is not surprising that the East African Immigration Office appeared in the United States. Apart from Germany and Austria, the United States has the largest population of Germans in the world. Although there was a diversion from East Africa, the German population in the United States still reached more than 7 million in 1870 (more than 8 million in history). Among them, Germans who immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 1870 accounted for about 80%, while the total population of the United States at that time was just over 36 million (more than 38 million in history).
At that time, the total population of East Africa was about 7 million, and newborns and immigrants from other ethnic groups accounted for a huge number. It is certain that there are more Germans in the United States than in the German country of East Africa.
Moreover, the Germans in the United States are more authentic than those in East Africa. Although there are some parallel imports from places like Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they are still better than East Africa, where people call a horse a zebra. Calling a zebra a zebra is a bit exaggerated. In fact, East Africa has changed the German ethnic group from blood identity to cultural identity.
Soon, with the cooperation of the Chicago branch, the East African Immigration Agency began to take action in Chicago.
"Hey, bro, where are you from?"
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"I mean, do you have any intention of moving to another place for development? We are specifically looking for jobs for the unemployed."
"Really, sir?" Chicago citizens' eyes lit up when they heard about the job.
"Ahem, of course. It's just that my job isn't in Chicago, so I need to go out of town."
"It's okay, sir. Look at this scorched earth. The owner of the restaurant where I worked is probably just a pile of ashes now. I really don't know what to do now! My home is gone too, wuwuwu..." As he said this, the man burst into tears.
Those who hear it are sad and those who listen to it cry.
"Oh, don't worry, it's all over. You can just start over. What's wrong with a grown man crying?"
"You sound nice, but I came to the United States from Europe when I was 15 years old. I finally saved up some money, but now it's all gone!"
"Brother, you are destined to have this disaster. Wasn't Jesus nailed to the cross all the same? Now, God bless you, you have met me! I will take you to a good place. The conditions are not worse than Chicago, but there is a lack of entertainment and life is a bit monotonous. But for poor people like us, as long as we work hard, we can do well."
When the man heard him say that, he immediately thought of the West. "You're not trying to recommend a job in the West to me, are you? I'm a bit timid, and I heard that the West is a mess. I don't want to be a cowboy or something."
"Don't worry. Would I cheat you? No one would go to that place in the western United States. The job I recommend to you is far from Chicago, but it is very stable. It's even more stable than Chicago."
"this……"
Seeing that he was still a little hesitant, the immigration officer said, "Don't worry, we are going by water. Today's ship will go east from the canal."
This sentence is very misleading. If you go by water, you are definitely not going to the West. To go to the West, you usually have to go by land, either by horse carriage or railroad. This person thought that the Immigration Bureau employees were going to arrange a job for him in New York or other cities.
"Okay then! Shall we set off now?"
He is a bachelor, and now he has nothing left except his life.
Immigration Agency: “Of course, just follow me!” We’ll cheat as many people as we can.
In the next few days, the Immigration Agency was recruiting people in Chicago. Although Germans were the main target, it was not certain whether they were the real target or not. All of this could only be judged by the Immigration Agency employees based on their appearance, clothing, and accent.
The Immigration Agency also took away the Chinese who survived the Chicago Fire. Chinese Americans are very easy to identify; you can tell them apart by their braids.
The immigration staff communicated with each other one by one in a not-so-authentic Far Eastern dialect: "Nihao, Xuyao Gongzuomai!" (Do you need a job?)
Most Chinese immigrants are low-level laborers with no other choice. Never mind whether they are being lured into the United States or not. Since they have been lured into coming to the United States, what are they afraid of?
There were quite a large Chinese population in Chicago, and some of them were killed in the fire. However, the Americans counted only 300 casualties, which did not include Chinese, Italians, Indians, blacks, and some people without relatives. As a country of immigrants, the United States has too many people without relatives.
So it is difficult to know exactly how many people died in the Chicago Fire, but Odyssey, president of the Chicago branch, believes that the death toll may be over 10,000. More than 300 bodies were carried out from the city center alone, and there were also people who were burned to ashes, drowned, and trampled to death...
The disorder after the Chicago Fire made the immigration officers bolder. Except for the Chinese, all other people, regardless of whether they were German or not, were tricked onto the ship first, and then directly taken to New York, and then sent to the sea ship. Before boarding the ship, the immigration officer said that they were going to the South, but the answer from the immigration officer was ambiguous. These immigrants assumed that they were going to the South of the United States. As for which South, that was up to the immigration officers. East Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere! Those who understand will understand.
Once they were tricked onto the ship, they were taken over by armed personnel from the East African Kingdom. The enthusiastic fellow villagers instantly turned into strict soldiers, and even caused many real Germans to worry that they were here to recruit soldiers! A large number of German immigrants to the United States ran to the United States to escape military service and war, so as these immigrants were worried, ships set sail from New York to East Africa.
All of this was done quietly. After all, under the noses of the Americans, it was not easy for the East African government to openly bring people to East Africa. The Immigration Bureau used various means to deceive people, but they only said that they were going to East Africa.
The quality of this group of immigrants may not be as good as those from Germany for East Africa, but they are also needed by East Africa. Among them are many railway workers, who are just right for the subsequent railway construction in East Africa.
Not only in the United States, in fact the East African Immigration Agency has landed throughout the Americas. Canada, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico are all targets of the East African Kingdom.
Most of the German immigrants to America were lower-class civilians, and many of them were doing very poorly. If they were not living a satisfactory life, that meant they could be tapped. The East African Kingdom did not really need these abilities. As long as you could speak German, could go to East Africa to look after the slaves, and farm honestly, you would be a good immigrant.
(End of this chapter)
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