For the next 80 years, Chinese immigration was strictly limited, until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was intended to remove racial discrimination. At Angel Island, immigration ...

Hopeful Chinese immigrants, legitimate or not, were held at Angel Island for lengthy periods of time -- a few months to more than a year -- and subjected to grueling, repetitive interrogations before ...

For the next 80 years, Chinese immigration was strictly limited, until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was intended to remove racial discrimination. At Angel Island, immigration ...

Angel Island represents an important counterpoint to Ellis Island and the saga of American immigration history. Between 1910 and 1940, hopeful Chinese immigrants were detained at Angel Island where ...

are poems written in Chinese, many of them made all the more impressive for having been carved into the wooden walls. More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

Angel Island, the immigration station on San Francisco Bay, opened in 1910 to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, is where two hundred fifty thousand Chinese immigrants were processed.