On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

Icons of American liberty and freedom, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island have long been a mainstay of the New York skyline and its history. Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the ...

It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the ...

In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

Ellis is set to make its small screen debut this week, but when can viewers expect to tune in? The Channel 5 series follows two detectives as they tackle seemingly impossible cases that have ...

Some people on Prince Edward Island say newcomers are "being cut loose" by the federal government's most recent reduction in immigration targets. Last week, Ottawa announced it is slashing the ...

After visiting the Statue of Liberty Museum, continue to neighboring Ellis ... Hop back on the ferry for the short ride to Ellis Island. Learn all about the complicated immigration progress people ...

Experts and federal officials over recent years have pointed to high population growth, due in large part to immigration, as a factor that has helped Canada avoid an economic downturn.