About 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. That's what made the U.S. so prosperous.

Ellis Island gained its historic status as the first place millions of immigrants arriving in America would have set foot on US soil. And remarkably, two American men of Welsh origin with the same ...

Immigration is central to America's identity — and for most of us, to our family histories. As we turn away from that legacy, ...

Minding the Campus As the Trump administration battles to secure the southern border and undo Biden’s reckless dereliction of ...

But there is no Ellis Island today; since that time, immigration law has only become more complicated. Spend some time researching the process to receive asylum in the United States, considering the ...

Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, ...