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 ...

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 ...

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.

Angel Island State Park is situated in the San ... which tells the important story of the Chinese immigrant experience. Recent travelers say visitors should allot extra time to hike the roughly ...

but the ban lasted for more than 60 years and made it difficult for Chinese immigrants already here from finding jobs and from becoming American citizens.