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  Angel Island Association

1. Angel Island, a park today, once played a major role in the settlement of the West, serving both as a Public Health Service Quarantine Station, and an Immigration Station.

  Angel Island Immigration History - (Chinese and Japanese)

1. Immigrants from other Pacific Rim countries, including Russia, Korea, the Philippines, and Japan "Enemy aliens", most of them German and Japanese citizens who were later transferred to permanent detention quarters in North Carolina. U.S. federal prisoners were housed on the second floor.
   1. Immigration Station or North Garrison - 1905
   2. 1910-1940 175,000 Chinese immigrants were detained from two weeks to two years.
   3. 19,000 Japanese "picture brides" were processed
   
   
   

  Angel Island Poem

1. A Poem - Angel Island: A Hell for Some Who Sought the Gold Mountain "Unlike Ellis Island in New York's harbor, Angel Island is a visible reminder of a shameful period in U.S. immigration history."