Angel Island State Park Interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee shows a Chinese engraved poem made by detained immigrants on the walls of the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in Tiburon, Calif., on ...

The Chinese Poetry Left at Angel Island, the “Ellis Island of the West” Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China ...

The cold, damp walls, worn from years of neglect, remain on the island as a distant reminder of its role as a detainment center for thousands of Chinese immigrants during the early 1900s.

Angel Island State Park Interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee shows the men’ s detention barracks at the historic Angel Island ...

The U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island processed nearly a million immigrants from more than 80 countries between 1910-1940. (Courtesy of ... Japan and Mexico — were met with strict enforcement ...

Inscribed Chinese poetry, written by former Chinese immigrants who were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station, is seen along the walls of the detention barracks of the Angel Island ...

MADE IN USA: ANGEL ISLAND SHHH: Flo Oy Wong's mixed-media project is on display 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and weekdays by appointment, at the Angel Island Immigration Station through ...

But that wasn’t the only Angel Island story. The immigration station was also the first stop for thousands of Chinese, Japanese, South Asians and Filipinos who were admitted into the country and ...

The station was built on Angel Island, a short boat ride from San Francisco, to help enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other laws aimed at curbing immigration at a time when Americans ...

In “Angel Island,” a staged oratorio about the anguish and isolation of Chinese detainees at Angel Island Immigration Station in California, a choir recites a poem about tyranny and misfortune.