TITLE

Ellis Island a welcome site? Only after years of reform

AUTHOR(S)
Guzda, Henry P.
PUB. DATE
July 1986
SOURCE
Monthly Labor Review;Jul86, Vol. 109 Issue 7, p30
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Explores how the United States Department of Labor and its predecessor agency administered immigration laws for the country in Ellis Island, New York between 1903 and 1920. Number of immigrants processed in Ellis Island; Immigration restriction bill in 1921; Closure of the immigration center in 1921; Reopening of the immigration center.
ACCESSION #
6006069

Tags: EMIGRATION & immigration law -- United States;  UNITED States. Dept. of Labor

 

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