Ellis Island

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Ellis Island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the site of the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. It became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and since 1990, hosts a museum of immigration run by the National Park Service. A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey.

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As the detention center, Ellis Island quickly transformed from a place to get through to a place to escape from (After Johnson-Reed Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 ) There were 2,400 migrants typically detailed in the facility, designed to house 1,200 and only 350 beds, all reserved for women and children. For everyone else, there were “bunks in wire cages …arranged in double tiers, without mattresses, and crowded into a room with unsatisfactory ventilation.” In a 1924 letter to the editor of the ‘New York Times’ a reader begged New Yorkers to turn their attention to “the temporary home of those whose misfortune it is to be sent to Ellis Island pending a hearing”. The writer had visited the island four times. “What I saw is not likely to be soon forgotten, he reported. “The Living conditions are abominable and the sanitary arrangement are beyond description.” Officials charged with caring for the migrants “hgve not yet heard the words civility or courtesy. They would make much better attendants in the lion house ar Bronx Park” . . . . Page 118

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