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Nearly 40 percent of Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island. However, today's migrants may be shut out and deported, a humanitarian tragedy that would ...

He had been dead 42 years, but my great-uncle's benefits sustained and, in many ways, shaped the remainder of my great-aunt’s life.

Immigration is central to America's identity — and for most of us, to our family histories. As we turn away from that legacy, ...

I am a third-generation American citizen. My grandfather was born here, to immigrant parents who came from Alcamo, Sicily to the United States, looking for a better life. As an Italian-American and a ...

4 weeks ago Platkin said he remembers going to Ellis Island as a child, visiting the location where his grandparents arrived decades ago, and he never imagined a few generations later, he would be ...

Then we went to Ellis Island to learn how people, for more than 100 years, ventured across the ocean in their desire to immigrate to the United States. It was named after Samuel Ellis, a Welsh ...

Scholar Kathryn Vaggalis has untangled the complex racial identity of Greek immigrants to America in her research of Greek ...

You can learn more about the island’s role as the West Coast’s Ellis Island with a visit to the Immigration Station ... cost $18 for adults and $12 for children ages 5 to 12.

"My grandparents came through Ellis Island," he said. Von Behren also said immigration is putting stress ... and has three children now studying the trades in hopes of joining the ranks of our ...