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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Angel Island portrays the anguish and aspiration experienced by hundreds of Chinese immigrants detained on Angel Island Immigration Station in the decades between 1910 and 1940. Choreographed by AAPI ...

WASHINGTON — Eleven sites including the Angel Island Immigration Station are on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for ...

A mule barn, a powerhouse and World War II-era barracks are among the structures at risk of collapse at Angel Island Immigration Station. On Wednesday, the site in the Bay was named on the annual ...