Angel Island Immigration Case Study

On Angel Island, the United States of America took it upon themselves to record and examine all of the people emigrating from their homelands. Most of the people immigrating to America through Angel Island were Asian in origin. Upon arrival to Angel Island, a medical inspection was one of the first examinations that the immigrants were put through to determine whether they were fit to enter the United States. The medical examiners inspected every immigrant for signs of disease or being unfit and detained them for further examination. If immigrants were found to have something that was able to be easily taken care of, they were treated. If, upon further inspection, an immigrant was found to have a chronic illness, they were then marked as unfit and denied entry into the United States.
Angel Island was an immigrant arrival station on the western coast of the United States. The station, which operated for thirty years, from 1910 to 1940, was the main entry point into the United States for people arriving from the Pacific routes. More than one million people were processed at the station; most were allowed to enter the United States but to do so they had to pass various medical examinations to meet the requirements for entry . There are many reasons that made people immigrate to the United States. One reason was the

This is over five times as many immigrants deported from Ellis Island2. A large percentage of Chinese were expelled from the country because of alleged medical diagnoses. Asian immigration to Angel Island was met with copious amounts of xenophobia. Not only because the government wanted to keep the Chinese out of the country, but also by the American people that saw Asian immigrants as not being able to different and not being able to assimilate into American society under any