Steps to the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in Tiburon, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Immigrants from over 80 countries were detained after being interrogated, medically examined ...

A stone’s throw from Alcatraz sits Angel Island. For thirty years, this spot in San Francisco Bay held thousands of Asian ...

New details are emerging about the hidden history of California's Angel Island, revealing long-kept secrets many immigrant families held onto for generations. Richard Lui investigates these ...

The “Angel Island Project,” a work by seven choreographers for 12 dancers inspired by Asian immigrants detained in a federal facility on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay from 1910-40 ...

“Here we had right in our own backyard a kind of encapsulation of how the government throws its power around on some of the most vulnerable people there are, which are immigrants,” he said. “From the ...

The exhibit was installed near the Angel Island museum’s permanent exhibits that tell the history of immigrant medical screenings at the island, and the experiences of immigrants who became U.S ...

where tens of thousands of mainly Asian immigrants were detained before being admitted to the United States or deported. The island, says Skip Henderson, executive director of the Angel Island ...

are stewards of American history at the Angel Island Immigration Station, which was used as a detention center in the early 1900s. Approximately 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries were processed ...