An 1896 lament about Italians and Eastern Europeans sounds eerily familiar today

[rightwinger]

Are the clown faced lefties going to use that tired old Ellis Island argument? It might work on the ignorant leftie base but it's a bogus issue. How many people crossed the southern border illegally during the first "four years Ellis Island was operational"? The U.S. had mounted Cavalry along the border with orders to shoot bandits and trespassers.

The U.S. had an open border with Mexico at the time. Mexicans could come and go as they pleased. It is only when we started building fences that they stayed

Mounted cavalry were fighting the Apaches