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 ...

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 ...

Anti-immigration sentiments have a long history of being tied to times of hardship: diseases, economic downturns and war. U.S. immigration history professor Erika Lee speaks with NPR's Ailsa Chang. In ...

Mostafa Khchich, an immigrant from Morocco who worked at Macalester College as a cook and server, left his job after three years to open a shop in Minneapolis. Immigration policies promise to be ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. On August 10, 1988, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “America stands unique in the world: the ...

“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 ...

The similarity was so striking, it made Alan Kraut laugh. “It’s like an echo from the past,” the American University history professor said after hearing the latest description of undocumented ...

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 ...

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