Immigration Station: European Immigrants

Documentary Filmmaker Dept: I told him, I went to this amazing place called Angel Island and he said, I was there. It was a prison, a jail, said Wong. He never wanted to talk about it so I never knew, according to The Star. Ellis Island under the silhouette of the Statue of Liberty is more famous as the gateway to America for European immigrants. But Angel Island in San Francisco Bay was for decades the entry station for arrivals from Asia where nearly one million immigrants were processed, opening at a time a century ago when anti-Chinese sentiment was at its highest and aNGEL ISLAND, CALIF. Documentary filmmaker Eddie Wong thought he had discovered something unusual to show his father when he went to Angel Island in 1971 and took footage of the abandoned former immigration station in San Francisco Bay. For tens of thousands of American-born Chinese, the history of their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents can be traced to one side of an island five kilometres from San Francisco. As reported in the news.
@t eddie wong, angel island