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Ellis Island: States
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Thereafter... the federal government expanded the island by landfill, so that it could accommodate the immigration station that opened in 1890 (and closed in November 1954). Landfilling continued until 1934. Nine-tenths of the current area is artificial island that did not exist at the time of the interstate compact.
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A difficult problem for Marsh came when Giuseppe Garibaldi grandly told the Americans that he was willing to come back to America "he had once lived on Staten Island" to become commander-in-chief of the Union forces. The answer to that obviously had to come from Washington, and soon enough it did: an offer to the Liberator of a commission, but only as major general. Garibaldi refused. Marsh wrote Secretary of State William H. Seward that he was relieved; it would be difficult to employ a general who thought himself on a par with governments and sovereigns.
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Because the island served several purposes, the internee population on the Island was fluid. Ellis Island was used as a detention center to hold alien enemies who were awaiting hearings; it ... served as a way station for those being transferred to and from other internment camps and for those awaiting deportation, repatriation, or expatriation. The number and nationality of the internees on the island for the dates indicated below were as follows:
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