Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...

The barracks at Angel Island Immigration Station looks like the last place on earth where art would happen. Cold and austere, it carries the memories of the 500,000 would-be Americans it processed in ...

Introduction -- Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station -- "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion -- "Agony, anguish, ...

There is a famous quote at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” There is a less famous inscription ...

Long before Ellis Island became a household name, another gateway stood on the west coast. Angel Island is a place where hope met hardship, but the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation is ...

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Now entering its third season, the Del Sol Quartet's Angel Island Concert Series is the first-ever recurring concert series presented inside the immigration station. With immigration and detention ...