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Remember that when you say "I will have none of this exile and
this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.
-Stephen Vincent Benet
Immigration throughout the years
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ELLIS ISLAND
Immigration- to enter and settle in a country or region to which
one is not native.
 Overview:
Ellis Island is a small island in Upper New York Bay, although in New Jersey waters, it is under the
political jurisdiction of New York. It was a major immigration station for the United States from 1892 to 1943 and an immigrant
detention station until 1954. Since 1965, it has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
Early History:
The island was named for Samuel Ellis, who owned the island in the 1770s. It was
purchased by the federal government from New York State in 1808 and was used as a fort. After the creation of the Immigration
Bureau (1891), the immigration station was moved from Castle Garden (at Battery Park, Manhattan) to Ellis Island.
Processing:
At Ellis, immigrants were examined and either admitted or deported; at the height
of its activity, the Ellis Island station could process 1 million people a year.
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