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Immigration's Tale Told on New York's No. 7 Subway Line

One of its thankfully forgotten mottoes aside ("The cowards never came, and the weak died on the way"), Ellis Island in New York is the place to go to get a sense of how wide-open immigration shaped the country's identity. Some 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island through 1954. But Ellis Island is immigration's sepia-colored, mostly white-skinned past.