The Jim Acosta Statue Of Liberty Kerfuffle Illustrates The Left's Ignorance

From The Washington Examiner by Michael Barone

The Ellis Island regime was not, however, the kind of open immigration system Jim Acosta and an increasing number of liberals and Democrats seem to favor. For one thing, the most tired and poor seldom made it to the United States, because they lacked the money or the heartiness to afford or weather even steerage passage on a trans-Atlantic steamship. More importantly, the government excluded those deemed (at their Ellis Island inspection or elsewhere) suffering from communicable diseases, those deemed to be insane or "loathsome" and those "likely to become a public charge." (Here's a sample of exclusions for such reasons.)