US Immigration Since 1965

For decades migrants from Central America have fled their homes from corruption, crime, poverty and violence to seek a better life in the United States. One of the major causes of such strife? The Cold War.

Ellis Island is known in history as a place that welcomed America's immigrants, but for a time, it also pushed them away.

Anyone born in America is automatically a citizen. But that wasn't always the case. And it was Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese-American man who finally ensured that right.

An estimated 40% of Americans are descended from people who passed through the Ellis Island immigration station during its six decades of operation. But what was the immigration process like?