Cheerful Ellis Island report ignores story of illegal immigrants
By Lou Guzzo

An Associated Press report of a promising expansion of Ellis Island would be great news for Americans, particularly those, like me, who are the sons and daughters of men and women who came through the immigration station gleefully many years ago — except for the major omission in the article.

The omission? The report makes no mention of the staggering immigration problem the nation is facing today. It ignores the economic jolt brought by the 20 million or more illegal immigrants, who have come into the U.S. in recent decades and who are siphoning off millions of your tax dollars and mine they don’t deserve.

According to the A.P., “A new center being created within the Ellis Island Immigration Museum will tell the history of arrivals before and after the peak immigration era in the United States of 1892 to 1954,â€