On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

At the end of the 19th century, Ellis Island immigration station in New York became known as the gateway to America. Between ...

Nov. 12, 1954, marked the day Ellis Island, the famous gateway to the U.S. in New York Harbor, closed its doors for good.

Since opening in 1892, the station had processed almost 12 million immigrants. The number of immigrants had fallen since anti-immigration laws were passed in the 1920s. During the second world war, ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

Israel Zangwill was the leader of the Galveston Movement and, in his generation, was also a well-known writer. In 1908, he ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as their new president on Tuesday, ...

I recently completed nine weeks of hospitality service at the Texas/Mexico border. I learned this. Immigration “the right way”: Open our hearts. Pray for the suffering. Do what we can! In the early ...

Across the country, the effects of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign have had a chilling effect on ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...