“Ellis Island operated from 1892

to 1954, and an estimated 40

percent of today’s Americans are
descended from foreigners who
passed through its halls.”
- New York Times, 2011
 Introduction
Polly Moser, Senior at
Centennial High School

Internship: Foreign-born
Information Referral Network
(FIRN)

Mentors: Meredith Hochman

and Hector Garcia
Time Devotion
 The Newsletter

● Interviews
● Relevant Issues
● FIRN’s Unique Impact
 My Research

● Persuasive speech on the benefits of immigration

○ America: A Nation of Immigrants
● Research oriented speech on the kinds of discrimination that
immigrants face
● Persuasive speech on immigration policy: The Importance of
DACA
Future Plans
 “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free, The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore. Send
these, the homeless, tempest-
tossed, to me: I lift my lamp
beside the golden door.”

- Emma Lazarus, American poet