Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates

A new National Archives exhibition, Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates draws from the millions of immigration case files in the Archives to tell a few of these stories from the 1880s through World War II. It also explores the attachment of immigrants to family and community, and the attachment of government organizations to laws that reflected certain beliefs about immigrants and citizenship. These are dramatic tales of joy and disappointment, opportunity and discrimination, deceit and honesty. Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates is free and open to the public, and will be on display in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, through September 4, 2012