first of all Ellis Island was a different system it was not red tape like it is now, second it doesn&#039;t matter whether you read the law or not people are not going to come out and admit racism even when it&#039;s written. You have to know the person and the consiquences of it, there were police officers who profiled a hispanic person which most people don&#039;t know about probably because they ignore it or the media is biased nothing happened to those officers.