Visit to the Angel Island Immigration Station Museum
2024/11/22
(L to R) President Chiu, Consul General Osumi, Park Guide Ms. Casey Dexter-Lee, Executive Director Tepporn.
Ms. Dexter-Lee guides Consul General Osumi
On Friday, November 15, Consul General Yo Osumi visited Angel Island Immigration station with President of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) Board of Directors Ms. Darlene Chiu Bryant andAIISF Executive Director Mr. Ed Tepporn. The station was active from 1910 to 1940 and has been preserved to this day to commemorate around 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries who passed through, including 85,000 people from Japan. Itis consisted of detention barracks, a mess hall, and a hospital, with each site restored as a museum.
During World War II, the barracks also served as a detention center for nearly 600 Japanese immigrants from Hawaii and at least 98 mainland Japanese immigrants before they were further relocated to Wartime Relocation Authority incarceration camps or US Army/Department of Justice camps.
The Immigration station holds significant value for the history of immigration in the Western United States and is a great place to learn about your ancestors while hiking.
For more information on the Angel Island Immigration Station, please visit the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation website: https://www.aiisf.org/
During World War II, the barracks also served as a detention center for nearly 600 Japanese immigrants from Hawaii and at least 98 mainland Japanese immigrants before they were further relocated to Wartime Relocation Authority incarceration camps or US Army/Department of Justice camps.
The Immigration station holds significant value for the history of immigration in the Western United States and is a great place to learn about your ancestors while hiking.
For more information on the Angel Island Immigration Station, please visit the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation website: https://www.aiisf.org/
Touring the museum
In front of monument honoring immigrants
