Ellis Island Era Immigration Facts

It has been estimated that one out of every two Americans living today can trace his or her family history back to at least one ancestor who passed through the famous immigration station on New Yor...

"Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the...

Total immigration to the United States during the 1880s: 5.2 million Total immigration to the United States during the 1890s: 3.7 million Total immigration to the United States during the 1900s: 8....

Likely to Become a Public Charge Communist Party USA International Workers of the World International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union

nativism, nativist, nativists Opposition to immigration on the grounds that an influx of foreigners will marginalize the English language, undermine American culture, destabilize American politics,...