Ellis Island

noun

an island in upper New York Bay: a former U.S. immigrant examination station.

Ellis Island

An island in the harbor of New York City . The chief immigration station of the United States was on Ellis Island from 1892 to 1943, a time when millions of people, especially from Europe , came to the United States.

Ellis Island

Island in the harbor of New York City , southwest of Manhattan .

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Notes

1990 marked the opening of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Ellis Island lies near the Statue of Liberty , which made an impressive sight for people approaching the United States for the first time.

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First she must sail to England second class, then make her way through Ellis Island, where people are treated like cattle and single women like sexual prey.

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In the densely packed, mostly-immigrant community Hernandez calls “the Ellis Island of the West Coast,” a 35-acre green space serves as the “front yard and backyard” for tens of thousands of working-class residents.

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If the so-called Ellis Island of the West — 83% Latino, with a border town’s enduring economic and family ties to Mexico — can pull up the proverbial welcome mat, any Latino-majority area can.

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“My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island traumatized by the unfathomable murder of their families in the gas chambers of Auschwitz while the world let it happen.”

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The Irish were among the "huddled masses" who glimpsed the Statue of Liberty on their way to Ellis Island in New York and the start of a new American life.

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