Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

By 1930, more than 28 million immigrated to the United States ... new law set quotas for incoming immigrants equal to 3 percent of the number of a given nationality living in America in 1890 ...

Also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, it established a quota system of 2 percent of the foreign born residents of the United States as of ... for 70 percent of the new arrivals. The second major wave of ...

It is a matter of official record that in many cases these persons had been directly shipped to us ... in New York. Illustrations of the ease and facility with which this Pipe Line Immigration ...

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives finally took note of an ally named China. The House voted to repeal 15 minuscule Chinese Exclusion Acts which have been an irritation and an insult to ...

Trump's remarks came as part of a broader discussion on manufacturing and job creation in the United States. The former ...

Railroads changed agriculture. As railways linked farms to a wider commercial world, farmers began to grow new crops for ...

Noted legal scholar Jerry Rishe shared a very interesting presentation with the Yiddish Culture Club about the Johnson-Reed ...

On October 16, 1890, New Orleans police ... relations with the United States, and American leaders scrambled to push back on ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, millions of Americans will head to the polls to cast their ballots for one of the most consequential ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, millions of Americans will head to the polls to cast their ballots for one of the most consequential ...