Ellis Island Immigration Report

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What makes the United States unique? Even before the opening of Ellis Island, immigrants from all over the world have been moving to the U.S in hopes of obtaining a new start, more money and/or a better life. Due to today's unfortunate motto, one in a thousand men are honest, you can not differentiate the honest from the liars. As of 2014, 5.1% of the U.S labor force consists of the 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Sympathetic towards the lives of others, the United States Government allows in about 880,000 immigrants yearly; an estimate of about 352,000 of those immigrants stay illegally in the U.S after their visas expire. Despite the fact that the majority of the illegal immigrants work and pay Social Security taxes, as the
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