have you given i mean, the randomness of this crime, the time at which it happened, how have you been dealing with all of this? i have his father has been a rock. his father showed up immediately. we just happened to be in two different places. so, he came with me, stayed with me. held me you know, held me up when they gave me the news. i mean, i still am having a hard time getting his blood off my hands. i have my father flew in by the grace of god, caught a flight immediately that very same day and was here by midnight. because i don t have any other family here. so, between my family, mother, father, and then his father, i have had a pretty good support
this is our staircase at ellis island that we know millions of immigrants went down. can you imagine the feeling of a new immigrant who passed the test early on at ellis island and was about to go into our country. what s remarkable is this was the path that was paved with gold in people s mind and their vision and it was what our founding parents and envisioned that a new sojourn through this not knowing where they were going to go. i remember my grandfather who came through ellis island and walked down this staircase told my father when it was 10 minutes before the close of a vote, vote leon my father said no, i m tired. you are a citizen by chance. i m a citizen by choice. go across the street and vote. he said it s a privilege. it s your responsibility. these steps were the beginning of that journey. brian: the historian with us from the parks department and then michael immigration