Who remembers millions of Immigrants entering our country through Ellis Island?

[pwb]

Millions and millions, tens of thousands daily. These lower states sending a handful of people is laughable thinking this hurts the great Northeast. Welcome to you all up here.

[snowybirdie]

1. Thank God

My grandparents came in this way.

[SheltieLover]

3. Mine too!

[Historic NY]

2. DeSantis family came that way from Italy...

maybe they should have sent TONY back to Italy.

[mitch96]

4. My Mom and grandMom came thru there.. At some point we are all immigrants. nt

[onethatcares]

5. or during the Mariel Boatlift?

little marco is kind of silent when it comes to that. None had "papers"

[LeftInTX]

9. The Mariel Boatlift people were treated horribly

They may have been a factor in Reagan getting elected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift

Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 before the Mariel Boatlift.

[LeftInTX]

6. I wasn't born yet. Think the last immigrants were processed there in the 1930's. Family deported

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island

My grandmother and great grandmother were deported from Ellis Island in 1923. My grandmother was deported illegally because she was already married to a US citizen. Married in Syria in 1922, they had a marriage certificate. My grandmother also had a one year old with her. The baby died in France after being deported.

My great grandmother's deportation was also iffy. My great grandparents did not have a marriage certificate. (Married in 1900) My great grandfather had also become a US citizen, but eventually he and my great grandmother falsely claimed to be widowers and got married in Nuevo Laredo, MX in 1925. There were lots of bribes involved in this arrangement.

My uncle was born in Mexico City because that was the next stop on their journey. My grandmother and great grandmother and uncle could not enter from the southern border. They eventually went to Cuba and took a boat from Havanna to Key West. They got in legally that way.

Anyway, it wasn't like a Hollywood movie.
There were quotas. There were "undesirables"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
https://immigrationhistory.org/item/undesirable-aliens-act-of-1929-bleases-law/
https://www.history.com/news/wwii-jewish-refugee-ship-st-louis-1939
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/

[Emile]

7. My grandparents immigrated to the US February 13, 1911 Ellis Island.

[Stuart G]

8. Mine too. But I think it was sometime in 1907. Not sure of exact date. Ellis Island too.

[fescuerescue]

10. Why did we do away with Ellis Island anyway? We should build a new one on the southern border

The northern border too!

[LeftInTX]

11. It wasn't all puppies and flowers. That's why it closed

Conversion to detention center


With the passing of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, the number of immigrants being allowed into the United States declined greatly, ending the era of mass immigration.[157][19][158] Following the Immigration Act of 1924, strict immigration quotas were enacted, and Ellis Island was downgraded from a primary inspection center to an immigrant-detention center, hosting only those that were to be detained or deported (see § Mass detentions and deportations).[19][158][159] Final inspections were now instead conducted on board ships in New York Harbor. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 further decreased immigration, as people were now discouraged from immigrating to the U.S.[158] Because of the resulting decline in patient counts, the hospital closed in 1930.[160][161][162] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act

My grandmother and great grandmother were illegally deported from there in 1923. My grandmother had her baby at the detention center, then they kicked her out of the US. They gave "eye infection" as a reason for deportation. My grandmother eventually got in the US via Florida of all places in 1925. They eventually found out her deportation was illegal.

Eventually most immigrants from the eastern hemisphere came to the US via airplane instead of ships, hence a harbor detention center like Ellis Island was obsolete.

Too many people watch movies...