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Originally Posted by RichL025
Please use your google-fu and read what FDR said about it. Quite a bit prior to 1965.
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From 1892 til 1924 roughly 12,000,000 immigrants came through Ellis island it is of note the first immigrant recorded coming through the Island was a Irish woman
With the passing of the Immigrant Quota Act of 1921, the number of immigrants being allowed into the United States declined greatly. The passing of the bill ended the era of mass immigration.After 1924, Ellis Island became primarily a detention and deportation processing station.