Angel Island

Used as an immigration base for Chinese (unfair! unjustice! Give us human rights!) from 1910-1940, it was sort of a West Coast Ellis Island. Like an immigration station for Asians, mostly Chinese because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, many immigrants spent years on the island, waiting for entry..

As you can see from the upon picture, they were poked and prodded like animals; they weren't treated like decent human beings, which is totally in the wrong.

They were also made to live in tiny, prison-like quarters. Many immigrants spent years waiting for entry. Sad but true. It just breaks heart to hear how many of my fellow Chinese ancestors suffer to come to this old gold mountain, as they called it, where there's no chance of opportunity for them.

Because a fire destroyed the administration building in 1940, subsequent immigration processing took place in San Francisco

In 1962, the Chinese American community successfully lobbied the State of California to designate the immigration station as a State Landmark.
IMHO, why would they want to do that?That period of time was a horrible time for us Chinese Americans. The federal, state, local governments excluded us from being Americans even if we are born in this country-the land of opportunity.
You know, San Francisco means Old Gold Mountain in Chinese, meaning there will be good fortune in the Wild Wild West.
Us Chinese and Japanese should not be segregated 'cuz of our race. Chinese should not be sent to a immigration station out in an island or Japanese should not be sent to internment camps during the war whether or not they are born here. It is human rights. It is the principle of the matte, that is simple enought!