This piece compares the experience of visiting Ellis Island and the immigration debate going on in this country now. - - Donna Poisl
By Byron Williams, Contributing columnist
IT WAS surreal to be in New York City 48 hours after a failed terrorist plot, even more so when our plane inexplicably circled for 45 minutes before landing.
But my primary reason for being in the Big Apple offered an even more dreamlike experience. As a member of the African American Ministers Leadership Council with People for the American Way, I attended a signing statement for progressive immigration reform that was held on Ellis Island.
The ferry ride over gave me pause, so many ethnicities, so many languages spoken simultaneously all came to what felt like choreographed silence in reverence, as we passed the Statute of Liberty. It was simultaneously a breathtaking and paradoxical moment.
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