Approximately one million immigrants were processed on Angel Island between 1910 and 1940. Of these, an estimated 100,000 Chinese people were detained. Memories Carved on the Walls ...

Angel Island State Park Interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee shows a Chinese engraved poem made by detained immigrants on the walls of the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in Tiburon, Calif., on ...

A screening of Marin filmmaker Felicia Lowe’s “Carved in Silence,” her documentary on the detention of Chinese immigrants at ...

For 175,000 Chinese immigrants, Angel Island, located in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, was their first experience in the United States.

A new book by a Saint Paul author tells the story of Chinese immigrants applying to enter the US 100 years ago. The young adult novel incorporates the poems that people detained at Angel Island ...

Many people know Angel Island as a lovely spot to hike or picnic, unaware that it was the Ellis Island of the West Coast from 1910 to 1940, processing immigrants, particularly Chinese and other ...

Meanwhile, another dancer’s 18-foot-long plait of hair signifies the ties that bind immigrants to their homelands. Yet parts of “Angel Island Project” suggest hope and resilience.

Angel Island makes a fitting backdrop since it served as a U.S. Immigration Station that processed nearly a million immigrants from more than 80 countries between 1910 to 1940.

Before the station opened in 1910, immigrants coming from the Pacific were housed in unsanitary facilities located at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company docks on the San Francisco waterfront. Angel ...

Marilyn Loesch of Sacramento visits the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Border Surveillance: Places, People, and Technology” exhibit at Angel Island State Park on Thursday, April 17, 2025.