Jim Acosta of CNN delivered a ten-minute vocalisation communication inwards the White House Briefing Room yesterday , theoretically bespeak Trump policy wonk Steven Miller virtually the novel immigration bill. Shortly afterwards that , it became a Thing on Twitter to indicate out that Miller's ain great-grandparents entered through Ellis Island inwards 1903 , the same twelvemonth that the Emma Lazarus poesy form was added to the Liberty Island memorial. Now , I believe my grandmother who , along alongside her woman bring upward as well as siblings , entered the reason inwards 1904 , to bring together my great-grandfather who had been hither since virtually 1900. And I recall my menage unit of measurement telling me stories virtually how frightening Ellis Island was because you lot didn't know if you lot were actually going to hold out admitted , or sent dorsum afterwards you'd spent everything you lot had to teach here. So I got curious virtually what the entry requirements were at that time. The GG Archives provided some interesting material.
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Stephen Miller's smashing grandparents Wolf & Bessie Glotzer came to Ellis Island the same twelvemonth Lazarus’ poesy form was addedjewishjournal.com/opinion/rob_es…
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