Recently, I gave two presentations: first at the Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Massachusetts, and the second at Sacred ...

One hundred years ago today, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay opened its doors. From 1910 to 1940, the “Ellis Island of the West” was the gateway into America for more than ...

When Salvatore Pugliese disembarked the S.S. America at Ellis Island after two weeks at sea, an immigration officer grilled the 17-year-old tailor. Was he a polygamist? An anarchist? Did he advocate ...

100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation ...

NEW YORK (AP) – When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in ...

“We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago, binds the country inevitably for the future,” Vance said. Vance said the United States should admit “far ...

For four years, History Prof. Robert Forrant and Asst. Prof. Ingrid Hess of Art & Design have quietly charted the broad history of immigration in Lowell. With the help of a team of UML students , they ...

What many people don't realize about the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an organization within the Department of Justice, is that it was only created in 2003. It was, in part, a ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Rutgers University labor professor Janice Fine, the Center for Immigration Studies' Jessica Vaughan and NPR's John Burnett about how U.S. immigration policies have ...

During his first Citizenship Day speech on Sept. 17, 1952, President Truman warmly greeted the immigrants attending the annual meeting of the National Conference on Citizenship in Washington, D.C.

If even a fraction of those losing status remain in Canada, the country could soon face one of the largest undocumented ...