Oh Oh..it wasn’t Vito Corleone. The young boy was named Vito ANDOLINI. The Ellis Island clerk renamed the boy “Corleone”. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants walked ONTO Ellis Island with the European names of birth and walked OFF Ellis with a NEW name.
Did you also notice the Ellis guard combing the beard of what looked like a typical Orthodox Jew. He was looking for lice, or other unwanted hitch-hikers.
All were screened for HEALTH threats to the new country.
That system worked beautifully and made us the “naion of immigrants.” Today’s system makes us a nation of CHAOS.
You are right for pointing that out (about him being born Vito Andolini and then being renamed Corleone by the clerk, even though the interpreter told him the boy’s full name).
That was back when the United States and Canada were both regarded as places for immigrants where you built yourself a new life and future, as opposed to nowadays with people wanting a free lunch (totally agreed also with your point on today’s system making chaos).