America's immigration policy has always been a racialized debate over who can belong. The history of immigration in the U.S. reveals a pattern of restrictive and racist policies.

The national monument to immigration at Ellis Island is in the latter part of a $117 million makeover as the U.S. marks its ...

Two hundred and fifty years of American history have produced this enduring truth: Every generation has debated immigration — ...

I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million colonists and enslaved people lived in what would eventually become the ...

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 ...

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, relatives of the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island reflected on the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 200 artefacts telling stories of early 20th century immigrants to the United States will be returned to New York's Ellis Island immigration museum on Thursday following ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it Brian D. Scanlan ...