Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, the great potato famine and the Irish, the famine Irish and the making of New York. The immigrants are arriving

at first just into the east side, the North River it was called the Hudson now, the east side the east river they arrive in both

sides but there's no collection point that changes in the 1850s with the choice

of castle garden and one particular famine Irish

Hubert Glenn gets an important post at the Castle Garden. Who was

Hubert Glenn and what did he do for many years?

Hubert Glin comes to America from the west coast of Ireland. He's not your typical Irish immigrant. He had actually

begun college before coming to America in 1851. Also being from the West he

spoke both English and Irish and when he gets to New York he looks for a job

that he feels is commensurate with his educational level he wants a white collar job

he finds that the that the New York City Commissioners of Immigration

or New York State Commissioners of Immigration.

In those days, immigration was regulated by the states, not by the federal government. It's only after the

civil war that the Supreme Court rules that only the federal government can regulate

immigration. And so the state officials who regulate immigration into New York City need someone to work for them who speaks Irish also because they have people speaking only Irish coming into their facilities and looking for work.

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