Ellis Island “Feet People” Exhibit Blasts Militarizing Mexican Border, Deportations

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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/05/ellis-island-feet-people-exhibit-blasts-militarizing-mexican-border-deportations/

The Obama administration is injecting its open border agenda to the federal landmark that once served as the gateway for legal immigration with a new gallery blasting the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the deportation of “unauthorized immigrants.”

Located in the New York Harbor and situated near the iconic Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and its structures are federally-owned landmarks operated by the National Park Service (NPS), which is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior. From 1892 to 1954 the island received and processed around 12 million immigrants, mostly Europeans fleeing war, religious persecution and famine. Among them were oppressed Jews from Eastern Europe and czarist Russia in search of a better life.

This was more than half a century ago. In the 1980s the building that served as the nation’s chief gateway was restored and subsequently reopened as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, a “symbol of this nation’s immigrant heritage,” according to the U.S. government. The museum exhibits have for decades chronicled Ellis Island’s role in immigration history and offered individual stories of brave men and women leaving their homeland to seek new opportunities in an unknown country. This includes a baggage room where belongings were inspected daily, a registry room where the new arrivals underwent medical and legal examinations and dormitories that were filled to capacity nightly with temporarily detained immigrants.

Soon this historical federal landmark will expand to tell the plight of illegal immigrants that annually cross into the U.S. through the Mexican border. The new section will be called “Feet People” and a mainstream newspaper recently got a glimpse of it. The Border Patrol “began militarizing the 2,000-mile United States-Mexico border and deporting any unauthorized immigrants in 1993,” the new Ellis Island Immigration Museum panel says. “This fortification has pushed men, women and even children, who seek to cross on foot without documentation, even deeper into remote and dangerous terrain. They cross deserts and mountain ranges on foot and swim contaminated irrigation ditches. They crawl through sewer pipes and tunnels. To find work and reunite with family members, hundreds risk their lives every week to reach the United States.”

[Fishrrman]

The legacy of obama that by the time he leaves, he will have corrupted EVERY agency of government, every institution, every organization that heretofore preserved and promulgated our heritage.

As Ayn Rand would have said, "the greatest destroyer of them all".

[truth_seeker]

My ancestors all arrived in North America long before 1892 the last in 1871. My wife's all came after 1892.

And Ellis was NOT the only place. per wiki: "In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York City had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in Lower Manhattan, just across the bay."

and "From 1910-1940, Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. The Angel Island Immigration Station, located in San Francisco Bay, California, is rich in history and has served multiple purposes."

 
 

[mountaineer]

Those who came through Ellis Island - like my husband's four grandparents - played by the rules in entering the country and in achieving their U.S. citizenship.  Those days are over.