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Ellis Island was a place where boats docked filled with immigrants from around the world to get people checked for disease and take a test before entering America as an immigrant. It is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. Ellis Island is known as the "gateway" to millions of immigrants looking for a better life in America. Ellis Island inspected immigrants coming to join America from 1892 to 1954. In 1965, the island was turned into the Statue of Liberty monument, given to the U.S. by the French, which still stands today and since 1990 has hosted a museum of immigration.

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