Angel Island

Starting in 1910, many immigrants who journeyed to America were processed at an immigration station on Angel Island" class="css-u850">Angel Island, located in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Until a fire led to its closure in 1940, the station primarily functioned as a detention center, where half a million people from 80 countries were held under barbaric conditions—some for weeks, others for years. The majority of these detainees were Chinese ...