Angel Island was on the west coast in the San Francisco Bay. Asians, mainly Chinese, came to Angel Island. Between 1910 and 1940 about 175,000 Asians immigrated to the U.S. The Asians had it way harder then the Europeans because we wanted to make sure the Chinese would be loyal to us and not betray us. In 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. This Act made it so that all Chinese except students, merhcants, teachers, tourists, and government officials couldn't immigrate to America. They extended to law of another ten years.In 1902 other stiff laws were passed about immirgation. To be accepted citizenship in America the Chinese had to already have a family member living as a citizen in the U.S. You also had to have a husband or family. Many immigrants would lie about both. They would pay people to pretend to be their family so they could qualify for citizenship.The Asians were put through really tough questioning and tests and were detained sometimes up to two years. The buildings they lived in were in really poor conditions. They would write poems and things on the walls of their struggle and hard times. American laborers disliked the Chinese because the Chinese would work for less to nothing. They were basically stealing some American's jobs. This was one of the reasons the stiff laws about immigration were passed. In 1940 the administration building was burned down by a fire. Angel Island is now a National Hisoric Landmark.
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