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 ...

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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, ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- In a quiet corner of a San Rafael library, artist Evri Kwong works on a series of large panels depicting the Angel Island detention center where his Chinese grandparents were ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The annual state budget included a one-time fund of nearly $3 million to complete the restoration of the Pacific Coast Immigration Center at Angle Island, state officials said Friday.