HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Santa Barbara City College, Immigration Act Of 1924
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"the official would then ask the same questions about the man who claims to be the paper baby"s father. If the responses did not exactly match, the paper son would be sent back to china. The paper sons were often briefed on the types of questions that might be asked on angel. Island before leaving china: bathrooms provided little privacy, they consisted merely of a set of no-stalls toilets. "the chinese in angel island were treated like inmates in a jail: some became discouraged, and even suicidated, many poured their rage and sorrow into poems which they carved on. Angel island"s walls: several sons of the paper made it into the usa, we too became united states citizens as the "sons" of the people, they were permitted, as citizens, to bring their wives over from china. Each year more than 1,000 chinese women came to america this way in the years from.
