The Statue of Liberty was the work of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. For more than a century, people have ...

Overall, today’s immigrants speak English at much higher rates than those at Ellis Island or even those in the 1980s and 1990s. Most report speaking English “very well” or only English.

Trump Makes Alarming Confession on Wrongly Deported Immigrant Donald Trump is openly admitting his defiance of the Supreme Court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ...

Ellis Island, which was the doorway for some 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954, still offers many lessons, especially now, following Trump’s immigration and refugee crackdown, which ...

Alexandra waits with other immigrants at Ellis Island in 1923. (Image via 101 Studios/Paramount+) In 1923 , Alexandra's entry at Ellis Island is portrayed as a brutal and intrusive experience.

"Island of Hope, Island of Tears" is a 1989 documentary that screened every 30 minutes at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. ... Finland, Denmark, Holland, France, ...

And so, to me, what’s important about Denmark is that there was a party where people who were concerned about immigration could go that wasn’t on the extreme right.

For many Americans, any restriction on migration evokes memories of their own forebears from eastern and southern Europe who arrived in the Ellis Island years (1892-1914, 1919-24), and especially ...

For many Americans, any restriction on migration evokes memories of their own forebears from eastern and southern Europe who arrived in the Ellis Island years (1892-1914, 1919-24), and especially ...

For many Americans, any restriction on migration evokes memories of their own forebears from eastern and southern Europe who arrived in the Ellis Island years (1892-1914, 1919-24), and especially ...

Traditions of assimilation are weak in Europe and weaker in America than during the Ellis Island era. It's difficult to get the balance right between the benefits and detriments of immigration.