Ellis Island on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The immigration processing center Ellis Island ceased operations on this day in 1954. 

While immigrants were processed at Ellis Island, that largely stopped in 1924 after Calvin Coolidge signed the ultra-restrictionist Immigration Act of 1924 on the commonsense grounds that America should severely slow migration flows after historic immigration waves in order to allow for proper assimilation.

"The endlessly repeated argument that most Americans are the descendants of immigrants ignores the fact that most Americans are NOT the descendants of ILLEGAL immigrants. Millions of immigrants from Europe had to stop at Ellis Island, and had to meet medical and other criteria before being allowed to go any further." Thomas Sowell

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