USA’s 250th anniversary revives attention on immigration station built to exclude Asians

Preservationists say the San Francisco Bay site remains one of the clearest records of how US immigration policy once targeted Asians.

Photo via National Trust for Historic Preservation

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate 250 years since declaring that “all men are created equal,” preservationists are warning that one of the country’s most significant sites of Asian exclusion is again at risk. Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay was named this week to the National Trust …