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Article: CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT BITTER MEMORY AMERICA WASN'T THE PROMISED LAND FOR EVERYONE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 22, 1997
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Byline: Jean H. Lee Associated Press
ANGEL ISLAND, Calif. -- Dale Ching walks to the spot where he slept in a bunk bed for 3 1/2 months in 1937, a prisoner of U.S. immigration laws.
He wraps his hand around the pole that held his bunk and tells how the joy he felt on landing in San Francisco turned into despair as he spent night after night on the narrow bed.
``I thought, `In a couple of days, I'll be with my Dad,' '' he recalls. ``But they wouldn't let us even see each other.''
Ching, now 75, was a boy of 16 when he arrived alone at the shores of San Francisco, only to be whisked to an immigration station on Angel Island a mile away. ...