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 ...

Between 1892 and 1924, more than 12 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) bid farewell to their hometowns in search of better opportunities in the land of the free. Traveling with little more than a ...

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 ...