the ss america arrived at ellis island august 17, 1907.n this ship, my friend? "naftali ringel." isn't it amazing that he came on a ship called america? i know. do you know, there used to be a law in judaism that you couldn't travel on a boat on the sabbath? had that law not been changed, none of the jews of europe could have come to america because it took more than seven days and you'd have to be on the boat over the sabbath, and that's what allowed religious jews to come to america. good move, rabbis. yeah, yeah. [ship's horn blows] gates: two years after alan's grandfather naftali passed through ellis island, his wife blima also emigrated to america, but, according to family legend, the reunion didn't go so well. dershowitz: when my grandfather left poland, he had a long, long beard, and apparently, he cut off his beard, and when my grandmother saw him, she didn't recognize him, and she didn't believe that this was her husband and rejected him. oh, really? yeah. gates: not recognizing her clean-shaven husband was only the first sign to

ellis island to miss rates how much americans love immigration. this seems strange given the politics today, but americans, i would say most americans today in the 21st century absolutely love immigration. as strange as that may sound, hold that thought. but we know from headlines, from politics, debates in congress and so forth then americans also hate immigration. it seems we have always hated it. we will get to the explaining how that is possible, to love and hate something at the same time. it is not that half of americans love it and half of them hate it. it is that millions of americans at the same time love it and hate it. and there is a good reason for that and it has been the same reason for long, long time. two kinds of immigration. this is one way to look at it. who wants to venture a guess? how is it possible for somebody, maybe if you go back to that earlier image, the woman standing holding the flag saying america has been invaded. how does someone like that express love for immigration? what kind of immigration would she like? yes?

if you go to ellis island, you will see this image, an american flag, very large. about 20 feet long, 10 feet high. if you stand on one end, it has a hologram effect. on the right side, you see a big flag. if you walk towards where i am standing, the image changes and you see these faces representing ethnic and racial groups. how muchand shows americans love immigration. this seems strange given the politics today, but millions of americans, i would venture to say most americans today in the 21st century, absolutely love immigration. as strange as that may sound, hold that thought or do we know from headlines, from politics, debates in congress, and so forth, that americans also hate immigration. it seems we have always hated it. we will get to the explaining how that is possible, the love and hate at the same time. it is not that half of americans love it and half of them hate it. it is that millions of americans, at the same time, love it and hate it. there is a good reason for that, and it has been the same reason for a long, long time. two kinds of immigration.

they never went through ellis island. but there symbol of a new start in a new nation was seeing the stars & stripes waving over this fort at that time. 1902, the locus point immigration terminal was second only to ellis island as far as the number of immigrants. standing on the ramparts, one can almost hear a german father telling his daughter, your descendents will be americans. we are going to see that the flood tide of immigrants dwindles to a trickle at fort mchenry in 1914 when world war i breaks out in europe. fort mchenry is being used as a city park at that time. it was a much famous for its bathing beach as it was as the home of the star-spangled banner. but that changes in 1917 when the united states goes to war. and shortly thereafter, a fleet of trucks and workmen come, and they begin building 100 hospital buildings on the ground. general hospital number two, one of the largest army hospitals in our nations is built here. let's take a look at that hospital. general hospital number two, one of the largest army

on this day in 1954 ellis island closed its doors to promising immigrants? down until the war was over or it was a temporary nuclear research facility? the answer is its host captured enemy sailors. the island reopened for immigration at the end of the war. >> it is interestingly enough setting records right away. we may next week. >> very unusual. that is in the number of consecutive self 40 degree days that we're going to have to the middle of next week. the temperatures will even reach 40. 32 lead midway right now. it is chilly up there. about eight degrees colder than 24 hours ago. you have a windchill that we calculate that 20 right now. water temperatures only in the mid to upper 40's. here's the satellite radar view. there's some like affect styles that will be blowing into the other side of the lake. clouds that develop as we keep a little bit during the day might produce an errant fleury. there uc clouds. it will not amount to anything. that is a midnight you. look at the snow showers and going into the snowbelts of parts of northwest indiana and low

if you go to ellis island, you will see this image, an american flag, very large. if you stand on one end, it has kind of a hologram effect. if you stand to be right side you just see a big flag, and if you walked to where i am standing, the image changes and you see these faces representing these different groups. to miss rates how much americans love immigration. this seems strange given the politics today, but americans, i would say most americans today in the 21st century absolutely love immigration. as strange as that may sound, hold that thought. but we know from headlines, from politics, debates in congress and so forth then americans also hate immigration. explaining to the how that is possible, to love and hate something at the same time. it is not that half of americans love it and half of them hit it. it is that millions of americans at the same time love it and hate it. and there is a good reason for that and it has been the same reason for long, long time. two kinds of immigration. venture a guess? how is it possible for somebody, maybe if you go back

ellis island processed more than 12 million immigrants since it opened in 1892. 4% of all americans cane their root through this island. a century later it reopened as a museum right next door to lady liberty. nearly 2 million people visit it every year and gateway to the american dream closed its doors 60 years ago today. >>> when news breaks out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. we're very close to a another new record on wall street. if in is just go up a little bit on these last few ticks, that will be seven in a row and a of the year or six in a row, i meant. six in a row. cavuto will know. he is coming up now. see you later. >>> forget that arctic blast gripping much of the face. is the president about to blast consumers with onslaught of executive actions on global warming? welcome, everyone, i'm stewart in for neil cavuto. this is" your world." even before republicans take control of congress reports today, the president's planning to bypass congress with a massive environmental crack down. tighter limits on smog koesing ozone, clampin

this week marked the 60th anniversary of the closing of ellis island. it opened in 1892, ellis island processed over 12 million immigrants, and the u.s. government estimates that 40% of americans can trace their ancestry to immigrants who passed through this isle in new york harbor. a new art exhibit on the island caught my eye this anniversary week. as part of his unframed project, the artist j.r. has placed life-size historical photos of immigrants around the deteriorating buildings. the black and white pictures fit cleaverly into the walls and the space and according to the artist's website, the project is about bringing the memory of the island to life. and perhaps the memory that america is a country of immigrants who came from around the world, often poor and i w l illiterate and speaking little english but from that rough material has come the energy that has made it the most powerful country in the history of the world. just a memory that congress should keep in mind when thinking about immigration reform. and now a quick geography lesson for us

that's how immigrants started when they came in the early 1900s to ellis island. they worked up the ladder. that was good then. now we are talking jobs and the effect on the average american. it has to. as it has people come in, you can say if it's legal or not legal what obama is doing. they will affect the job market and wages. it has to. >> john, this gives you a chance to disagree with gary b., which rarely happens. >> i agree, there's going to be pressure on wages. i think most of these people already have jobs. two things tracy said are taxes are not going to increase. they are lower income. we are not going to see that. after 1986, ronald reagan passed, we saw an influx of illegals coming into the country. we have a small pie of jobs, then it's zero gain. if an immigrant gets a job, an american has to lose a job. we have a certain amount of jobs. this is like the turn of the century, irish need not apply, immigrants need not apply. we don't have a set number of jobs. a big part of growing the economy is immigration, which america has been built on. >> that'

forget about ellis island. forget about the idea of everybody being welcome here in new york city.this will be a city only for rich people. >> at its root, this is about some luxury dwelling places for a relative handful of people, many of whom don't even live in this country, and they're impacting a park used by 40 million people from around the world every year. that seems to me out of whack so we're going to make noise until we get somewhere. >> the internationalization of new york once meant something actually kind of exotic and exciting and enhanced our diversity. today, internationalization at least on west 57th street and east 57th street and all around midtown manhattan seems to symbolize not diversity but a kind of exclusivity and an end to the sense that we're all in it together, which is the key urban idea. we all meet each other on the sidewalk. we all meet each other in public places. and the urban environment is the common ground that we all share. >> tell us if you've seen some of these forces eroding the common ground where you live. perhaps like some of the people

san francisco with its night life, the key collectors international and the statue of liberty ellis island. the mayor's office of protocol was granted use for a limited period of time for crystal, brass or ornaments but was rejected for anything such as tee shirts, jackets or satchels and the bronze seal placed in the mayor's office was also approved by this department. should the committee approve the use of the seal, madam chair, i'm happy to come back and present the amendment at that time. >> i think it's fine to present the amendments now. we just will not vote on them until after public comment. >> so my request is that just the language, the seal shall be placed in a dignified manner on promotional material, that it shall not be authorized for use on items that will be worn or items that would be meant for sale. i can work with the clerk on the appropriate whereas clause. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. colleagues, with that, madam chair, may we proceed to public comment? >> yes. >> okay, so we have several speakers which i will call up. i will call up speakers. first i'd like

. >> los angeles is the modern ellis island for central america. this is the capital of the central american diaspora in the world. >> former gang member alex sanchez's family complete el salvador at the time and settled in l.a.'s pico union neighborhood. >> the reagan era from central america is always going to be remembered as those dark ages. >> in the barrios of la, they formed gangs of their own. sanchez helped form a teen gang. now he helps teenagers reclaim their young lives. >> i wanted to feel acknowledged. i wanted to feel like i was valuable. >> the central american gans includgangsinclude ms 13 and thh street gang identified by their tattoos. they quickly became the most lethal gangs. >> they do scare people and do crazy kinds of things, very unorthodox even for gang members. >> sanchez and others did time in california prisons. >> i ended up going to prison three times for various reasons and i -- it wasn't about learning a lesson. it was more about punishment i felt. and for us, going to pson wasn't so much an opportunity to reform an

i taught history and there are quite a few folks that bypassed ellis island and became part of the country. i am looking at you irish for example and italian folks. how many generations do you intend we should go back if illegal by your deaf situation is illegal? if every person that came here to our shore without going through the normal documented way is illegal, how many generations do we go back? two generations, three, four, five, seven generations? how many, sir? >> george, how long has your family been here? >> one side, five generations. >> and the first immigrants in texas had names like mine. they came across the is a bean. so we have a long history of illegal immigration. the biggest period of that occurred from 1914-1918 when a million people came from mexico during the mexican revolution and people sent their children here to get out of the violence of the various revolutionary factors. none of this is new. we can learn from what happened a hundred years ago. but again, we have to figure out what do we do with those that are here. we ain't deporting them. it ain't happening. i

. >> today marks the 60th anniversary of ellis island's closing.re michael greeley wandered onto this continent. there is a wide set of drunks they came across. fortunately, i did my genealogy. comes out.h >> they were service crude up. they moved from scotland to wales and then they threw them out of wales. they were on the 14th boat after the mayflower. they came here in 1870 because they were drafted and had enough sense to get out of europe. >> from russia and poland, for roughly the same reasons, including the rum. >> very cool. that was wonderful. >> our next photo, president obama takes part in a treeplanting ceremony. >> this is so awkward. that is ed fast. >> patio eu not know ed fast? he is looking like he is digging a hole. president. perhaps this is a celebration of the potential climate change agreement. why is he doing work while wearing a shirt? how does that happen? how did we miss that? today, the rosetta probe achieve the first comment landing. it is 217 million miles from earth. >> it is going to land on it? shoot a going to harp

went through ellis island, didn't speak a word 06 english. married a policeman, raised two daughter, became a bookkeeper. she was feisty. family legend has it that a mugger once approached her at a bus stop to, she hit him over the head with an umbrella. she was moving. this is a new part of life for her. she was moving to san francisco to live with her adult daughter and her daughter's husband. her daughter was so excited thinking about going to the airport for this new phase of her life. john manning was also in his 70s. he was a world war ii veteran. he was a retired bartender at the palm restaurant in new york, so he could spin a yarn. but he was traveling with a heavy heart because his stepson had recently been married, had gone to california on a honeymoon, stepson had died in a car accident, and so john was going to the funeral and to collect the remains. wanda was one of five flight attendants onboard, one of three african-americans on the flight crew. she was a 29-year veteran of united airlines. she had the dream of opening her own

immigrant city, the relative share of foreign-born has reached levels not seen since the historic ellis island wave at the turn of the last entry. while some have stated all the nations under heaven are represented among all old and new new yorkers, researchers find pattern of red -- of immigration has worsened, especially for african-americans all stop the racial ultimate nation is somewhat countered by of polyestertion or global neighborhoods. ethnicacial and neighborhoods are quite diverse and found throughout new york city but the concentration in the borough of queens is notable. moreover, the magnitude of ethnically -- ethnic diversity in these neighborhoods has no parallel in previous waves of immigration will stop in the same way, white angelenos left the city of angels. particularly in the 1970's and 1980's. more recently in the last few decades, this exodus of white americans to places like westchester and suburbs in connecticut has started to reverse itself amid the gentrification of manhattan. pattern has become referred to as manhattan is asian. many parts of manhattan, harlem, an

went through ellis island, did not speak a word of english, became american, married a policeman, raised two daughters. she was feisty. a robber approached her and she hit him over the head with an umbrella. but she was moving. this is a new part of life for her. moving to san francisco to live with her adult daughter and her daughter's husband. she packed four suitcases. her daughter told me she would so excited to think about going to the airport that morning to pick up her mother for this new phase of her life. john was also in his 70s. a world war ii veteran. he was a retired bartender at the palm restaurant in new york so he could spin a yarn. he was traveling with a have ya heart because his stepson had recently been married, had again to california on his honeymoon, had died in a car extent on the honeymoon. so john was going to the funeral and collect the remains. the last one is wanda green. wanda is one of five flight attendants on board. one of three african-americans on the flight crew. she was a 29 year veteran of the united airlines but wanted to work in real estate, had th

you thought your family came through ellis island. it opened officially in 1892.more of your relatives in south carolina in 1773. so you guys have been here for a very, very long time. >> that's fascinating. thank you so much. thank you for choosing know do this. >> it was wonderful. >> myheritage. >> this computer age has allowed people to go back and back and back. we don't have to depend on verbal history. can you put in simple terms how you've consolidated records of all these nations? >> it's amazing because my heritage.com, who helped me in my search, if you go on there and you build your family tree and coming up with the holidays, thanksgiving around the corner, it's the perfect time to do this. >> sitting around the table yelling at each other. >> if we sit around the table yelling at each other and if go on there and start plugging in information, it links you to other family trees. ainsley, we went to another family tree so you have a lot of cuffs you don't know about. >> how much information do we need? >> not very much. i went in with my in-laws and a

i taught history and there are quite a few folks that bypassed ellis island and became part of the country. i am looking at you irish folk for example and italian folks. how many generations do you intend we should go back if illegal by your deaf situation is illegal? if every person that came here to our shore without going through the normal documented way is illegal, how many generations do we go back? two generations, three, four, five, seven generations? how many, sir? >> george, how long has your family been here? >> one side, five generations. >> how did they come across? contraband. >> and the first immigrants in texas had names like mine. they came across the is a bean. so we have a long history of illegal immigration. the biggest period of that occurred from 1914-1918 when a million people came from mexico during the mexican revolution and people sent their children here to get out of the violence of the various revolutionary factors. none of this is new. we can learn from what happened a hundred years ago. but again, we have to figure out what do we do with those that are here.

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most people do not know the history here in new york of ellis island. the secretary of interior had the honor of visiting the statue of liberty and opening up the crown for the world to see. every time that i would go to the statue of liberty i would think about how our country became what this country became because of the immigrants that were drawn here because of the freedom and opportunity that was here. so we are a country of immigration if there goes including many of my former colleagues in the united states senate who would like to close the door behind them and to save that we don't want those immigrant people. they would refer to those who are attempting to come into this country to seek freedom and opportunity as those people is somehow they were lesser human beings. that is very true in the u.s. senate and the u.s. house of representatives today on many of its members. and so i think that comes from the fact that they are representatives of the people and the people of this country so need to understand the history of immigration have given

the russians, the chinese, the japanese, the west indians, the huddled masses who came through ellis island on one coast and angel island on the other -- [applause] all those folks before they were . , they were them and when each new wave of immigrants arrived, they faced resistance from those who are already here. they faced hardship. they faced racism. hey 235eused ridicule -- faced ridicule. but over time as they went about their daily lives, as they earned a living, as they raised a family, as they built a community, as their they did the part to build the nation. s andwere the einstein , and, people we may not remember. it built the country hand by hand. rick i've wreck. k-by-brick. they knew that what makes someone an american is not just blood or birth. it is allegiance to the founders and the faith that anyone from anywhere can write the next great chapter of our story. that is still true today. alan.sk he is here. he is around your -- there he is -- he is around here. there he is. he was brought to this country .hen he was a child he felt american in every way. he was. except on p

all these immigrants that came here before there was ellis island, process. why did they come here? we dent come here to enjoy be called illegal and criminals. we come here like they came here. my mother made the ultimate sacrifice. i am thank foul to hful to her . >> tonight is a good night for you. >> a great night. yeah. >> will you be able to sleep tonight? >> i think so. >> thank you very much for being with us. let's bring in gloria borger, alan navarro, former white house press secretary, jay carney. where do things go from here? clearly the republicans are outraged. there are some republicans talking about, no judicial appointments, everything is going to grind to a halt? >> i think what we have to seep is whether or not the extreme rhetoric that we have heard from republicans, that you just cited will be matched by extreme action. now, so far, coupled with accusations of -- you know, imperial behavior, and lawlessness, and, unconstitutional action. you hear they won't shut down government. promises they went move towards impeachment. there are forces that will push the lead

migrant were going to have difficulty getting into the united states, they might be stopped at ellis islandecause they would fail the health inspection, they would go to canada and cross the border into the united states. lightly patrolled in terms of keeping people out of the united states. host: how easy was it for americans who fled to canada in the 1960's to escape? guest: it was fairly easy to get across the border. the problem was once you got in canada, could you get a job? could you work? the canadian government was very concerned about young americans coming into canada and competing with canadians for jobs. getting into canada was not all that hard. host: we have five more minutes with alan kraut at american university. rockford, illinois. caller: i work in the aircraft industry. you hear about illegals coming across the border. i work at a repair facility. working% of the people are illegal and can't read english. they have to have translators to translate the manuals. we adopted a romanian. my wife is chinese. it took me 10 years to get my kids. i'm still in the process of getti

then it was never an ellis island for latinos.s it and i hate to raise a flag that says racial preference or anything like that, but there is clear history that we wanted northern europeans. we didn't want southern europeans. we didn't want africans or chinese or south asians. we prioritized. and now there is a leveling of the field. the bigger question is do these people contribute to the united states of america and who we are as a nation or do they detract from who we are? are we stronger as a result of this immigration or are we weaker as a nation? i maintain that as a nation of immigrants, this process will sort itself out. some people have had the one leg up on the system. others have been disadvantaged historically. it will work itself out. right now 5 million, no criminal records, citizen born children, paid their taxes. >> it's a leveling of the field. i'm glad you said that. that kind of crystallizes it. >> i think we can all get along with the fact that the system currently is broken. something needs to be done of the t

in the entire life of usage of ellis island we only brought in 16 million people and they had to meet certain modifications, and if they were not, did not, they were sent back. that gave people time to assimilate and i just to our culture because the way we would -- i just to our culture because the way we do it now when we bring in thousands and thousands of people from one place, we are destroying the culture of our country and it is a very good culture that needs to be preserved. i think that people should be sent home -- everyone that is here illegally, i am sorry. we are going to become a third world country. we are fast approaching half a billion people right now. inwe want one billion people the streets with pushcarts to make a living? no. thank you. the: most of you know about story of jonathan gruber, the m.i.t. economist ran a controversial remarks about the passage of the affordable -- who made those controversial remarks about the passage of the affordable care act. i want to show you a compilation video that is then put together by american commitment. that is the group t

dodge foundation, the newark education trust and the save ellis island foundation. he was chief historical consultant for the jewish museum's exhibition, bridges and boundaries, african-americans and american jews. co-founded the marian thompson wright lecture series, the oldest, largest, most prestigious black history month event in the state and was a member of the scholar riyadh advisory committee to the national museum of african-american history and culture, smithsonian institution, which is currently being built here on the mall in washington. . dr. price is survived by his wife, who is widely respected for her outstanding leadership for almost a generation as director and c.e.o. of the newark museum, our state's greatest museum. my wife and i are grateful to have known clement price. we and the people of our state mourn his untimely passing. we extend our deepest sympathy to mary sue and to his legions friends and admirers in new wark, in new jersey, and across the -- newark, in new jersey, and across the united states. when he last visited me on capitol hill

fifth, immigration reform. 130ink you would find million of us can trace our roots to ellis island.at way forward. with a actually left off $5 trillion debt. bush left with another $5 trillion debt. now, under obama, we have added a trillion dollars in just six years. it is time to really in the government and get back to our freedom as americans once again. ed $8der obama, we have aidedd trillion in just six years. host: must do items on capitol returnight when members -- a weight when members return one week from today. this is valerie in lafayette, indiana. democrats line. caller: good afternoon. soundconnell tried to real conciliatory. i don't really trust him. i don't trust any of them at this point. , late spring is when you see things for what they really are. right now, you have a schizophrenic republican party. that is all i have to say. host: here is atlanta, georgia. in the . -- independent line. what do you think of the senate race with david purdue winning? caller: i'm actually glad. as long as he actually goes and get something done. like the color before, i'm a 22-yea

ellis, nbc news, germantown, pennsylvania. >>> when we come back here this evening, something remarkable in hawaii. we'll show you what's been spared by the lava flow on the big island. >>> on the big island of hawaii tonight, something of a freak of nature as the slow flow of lava continues to overtake a hillside, including a japanese cemetery in the town of pahoa. and it spared the headstone of the saito family. they thought they would never see it again. they were so relieved to see that it had been spared. it's now surrounded by this instantly hardening volcanic rock. >>> and hawaii democratic congresswoman, a former mp and captain in the u.s. army has been activated by the national guard. she's expected to win re-election tonight approximate. following that she'll be on duty providing assistance in the area of the lava flow. >>> the feds have fined ringling brothers & barnum & bailey circus $7,000 for a stunt back in may. the mishap sent eight of them falling 15 feet to the ground. some sustained serious injuries. $7,000 happens to be the maximum fine that osha is allowed to impose in such a case for safety violations. the spokesman for the company that operate

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i taught history and there are quite a few folks that bypassed ellis island and became part of the country. i am looking at you irish for example and italian folks. how many generations do you intend we should go back if illegal by your deaf situation is illegal? if every person that came here to our shore without going through the normal documented way is illegal, how many generations do we go back? two generations, three, four, five, seven generations? how many, sir? >> george, how long has your family been here? >> one side, five generations. >> and f

mine came through ellis island from ireland after one of the potato crop famines in the 19th century. so we understand both the desire to pursue the american dream in this country and the benefits that accrue to our country as a result of legal immigration. that's why we're such a generous country when it comes to legal immigration. but the current chaos associated with illegal immigration has a number of very negative consequences. i mentioned a moment ago, my state has 1,200 miles of common border and it gets attention every once in awhile, like when this humanitarian crisis involving these unaccompanied minors occurs, but happens day after day after day that people are detained coming across the southwestern border from all over the world. i met a young man about six months ago when i was down on the border who -- who had emigrated from bangladesh. and i wondered, how in the world did he get here from there? and so there were a number of other senators and congressmen with me. we asked the border patrol, can we ask him. and they said, sure. it turned out he spoke enough english. i