Mexicans. Polish and Russians all passed through Ellis Island. All together. 12 million immigrants passed through the front doors of freedom during that era. One hundred million Americans today in our country. about a third. can trace their ancestry to the United States from a man. woman. or child who passed through Ellis Island. Margaret Thatcher made the comment that no other Nation has so successfully combined people of other races and nations into a single culture. and she is right about that. The immigrants who flocked to Ellis Island and created the great melting pot that is America had one thing in common: they showed great respects for our Nation and its laws by emigrating legally. They all wanted to be Americans. They wanted to be in the land of the free and the home of the brave. and they understood that by coming here. and coming here legally. they would eventually get citizenship and become an American.
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