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Hannah Tsukamoto
May 17, 2015
Angel Island
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. What Makes Angel Island Unique
3. How Angel Island was Used
4. The Immigration Station
5. Writing on the Wall
6. Map of Angel Island
7. Bibliography
Angel Island is located in the San Francisco Bay and it is the biggest island in the Bay. A map is shown on the next page. Juan Manuel Ayala, a Spanish explorer, named it Island of the Angels. Angel Island was used in many different ways over the years: for hunting and fishing, for a cattle ranch, for military bases, and as a state park. My report will concentrate on the use of the island to hold an immigration station. The immigration station was opened in 1910 and closed in 1940 after a fire destroyed part of it.
Angel Island is a special place in California. It held the immigration station where most immigrants to California passed through.
Angel Island is the largest island in San Francisco Bay. Its highest elevation is Mount Caroline Livermore at 788 feet. The island is 1.2 square miles, and fifty-seven people are living there. The island can be reached by ferry from San Francisco or Tiburon. A map showing the location of Angel Island within California is shown at the end of this report.
At first, the Miwok Indians used Angel Island for hunting and fishing. In 1775 the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala sailed into San Francisco Bay. He explored the bay and made a map of it. He stopped at Ayala Cove in Angel Island. He thought the island protected the bay like an angel, so he named it Island of the Angels. Later on the island was used as a cattle ranch. It was an army post during the Civil War. There were some bases on the island: Fort McDowell and Camp Reynolds. During World War I, the island was used for sending soldiers in and out of California. During World War II, it was used for processing captured enemy soldiers. During the Cold War, the island had a Nike missile site from 1954 until 1962. Lastly it was used as an immigration station. Today it is a state park and is used by the Coast Guard.
Angel Island was used as an immigration station from 1910 to 1940. Immigrants from about 80 countries were processed at the station. Immigrants were checked for diseases and to make sure they were allowed to come into the country. Most of the people who went through Angel Island were Chinese. They were treated differently from other immigrants because there were laws excluding most of them from coming to the United States. Only citizens or relatives of citizens were allowed to pass.
Before 1882, there were no immigration laws in the United States, and people could move in and out freely. Many Chinese came into America to have a better life and earn money. At first they took jobs that nobody wanted. Later they started taking jobs that Americans wanted, and many Americans didnt like them anymore. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, which prevented most Chinese from coming to the United States. There was another law that required Chinese to carry around papers proving that they lived in the U.S. or were citizens. Chinese who didnt have papers could be deported to China. There were other laws that limited whether Chinese who returned to China could come back to the United States.
One exception in the exclusion laws was that Chinese who were relatives of American citizens could immigrate to the United States. In 1906, the Hall of Records in San Francisco was destroyed by the great earthquake and fire. All of the birth, death, and marriage records were lost. Now it became possible for Chinese who were living in California to claim that they were citizens. The U.S. government had to allow these Chinese to bring in relatives from China. Some Chinese pretended to be related to American citizens, and they were called paper sons or paper daughters. They got false papers to prove their relationship. Because of the paper sons and paper daughters, the immigration station at Angel Island tested the Chinese immigrants to prove their identity.
There were differences in time for processing different races. Europeans were processed within a few days and most were not detained at Angel Island. Non-Chinese Asians were also allowed into the U.S. pretty rapidly. But Chinese were usually kept at Angel Island for several weeks, and some were kept up to two years. Most of the time was spent waiting for the immigration interviews or waiting for the decision.
People waiting at Angel Island lived in the detention barracks, which were two stories high. The men and women were separated. Children under 12 stayed with their mothers. They were also separated by race into three groups: Europeans, Chinese, and other Asians. The barracks had bunk beds that were three high, and the barracks were very crowded.
The Angel Island immigration station barracks.
Being trapped in the barracks made the immigrants feel angry and lonely. They entertained themselves by playing games. They expressed their feelings by carving poems on the walls. The carvings and the role they played in preserving the immigration station are described later in this report.
The food quality was not good. Traditional food was cooked, but not in the right manner. The immigrants complained that the food was steamed too much until it was like soup and it was slopped together. They said that after looking at it they would lose their appetite. Once, a riot broke out in the dining hall when everyone started throwing dishes everywhere. Troops from Fort McDowell, which is on the island, were called to stop it.
After waiting for weeks or months, the Chinese had an immigration interview. They were asked very specific questions such as How many steps led up to your doorway. If the answers didnt match with the answer given by the citizen and his family, they were prevented from entering the country. The paper sons and paper daughters studied all about the family to which they were supposed to be related. If they didnt remember correctly, then they would fail. Sometimes even a correct answer would cause them to fail because things change over time. When the questioning ended, they would go back to the barracks and wait for the decision. A guard would shout Good fortune or Go ashore if the immigrant had passed. If a person was to be deported, the guard would pretend to cry. If the immigrant failed the interview, he or she could appeal. Most people who appealed eventually were allowed to enter the United States. Few people were finally deported. Some people who were deported came back and tried to enter the U.S. again.
The immigration station also gave health exams. Asians were checked more thoroughly because they came from areas with lots of disease. People failed the health exam if they had a disease that was not curable or if they had a condition that prevented them from working. People who failed were deported.
The Japanese were the second biggest group of immigrants that went through Angel Island. Many of them were picture brides, who had arranged marriages with Japanese men living in the United States.
In 1940, a fire started at the immigration station and the administration building burned down. After the fire, the immigration station was closed, and the immigration offices moved to San Francisco. The administration building was never rebuilt.
There were plans to destroy the immigration station, but it was saved due to the writings on the walls. Many immigrants expressed their feelings by carving poems on the walls of the immigration station barracks. They were written in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Urdo, Japanese, Punjabi, Danish, and other languages. The immigrants wrote on the walls to express anxiety, despair, anger, homesickness, loneliness, hope, fear, and confusion. The following is a translation of a poem by Yee of Taishan, which is displayed in t -
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