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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 11 > Schoolkids vow to save ‘Ellis Island of the West’

Schoolkids vow to save ‘Ellis Island of the West’

By Juliana Barbassa / The Bulletin
June 11, 2009

ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK, Calif. — Children crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who once passed through the “Ellis Island of the West.”

Some of their ancestors....

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