Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

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

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 ...

Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island's immigration station from its opening in 1892 to 1954, when it closed. But the number of immigrants dropped significantly by 1924 ...

In January of 1892, the government opened a special building on Ellis Island to handle the massive numbers of new arrivals to the United States. Throughout the early 1800s, immigration rose and ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

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

San Francisco and its neighboring cities are well known among ghost hunters as a hub for paranormal activity. State of play: ...

With immigration one of the key talking points in this year’s elections, the Ellis Island Initiative – a coalition of labor, business and advocacy groups focused on transforming migrant families' ...