美国的外国人

Ellis Island used to be one of the liveliest, most colorful places in the world. In 1910, seventy thousand immigrants passed through it each month, and Americans proudly spoke of their country as a melting pot. But thanks to the postwar anti-alien hys- teria and the deportation laws enacted during and soon after the First World War, the island’s business has become the expulsion of foreigners. During the last half of the Hoover regime, the Department of Labor, which includes the Immigration and Naturalization Service, might well have been called the Department of Immigration and Deportation. In- fected by the anti-alien virus, the labor secretary, William N. …