Ellis Island a welcome site? Only after years of reform. (history of U.S. immigrant receiving station in New York harbor)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: July 1, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

Ellis Island a welcome site? Only after years of reform Between 1903 and 1920, 10 million people emigrated to the United States by passing through the portals of the receiving station on Ellis Island. During that period, the U.S. Department of Labor and its predecessor agency, the Department of Commerce and Labor, administered the immigration laws of the country, including those providing for the operation of Ellis Island.

The island lies just a short distance from the New Jersey shoreline in New York Harbor. The Federal Government, over many years, expanded the land area ...

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