During the late 19th century and early 20th century, about one million immigrants from 90 countries were detained at Angel Island when they arrived in the United States of America. Among the immigrants, many of them were Asian. According to the article, those immigrants were likely to had a terrible experience during the time they were captured. At the time, American mostly had negative attitudes toward Asian immigrants. The Angel Island Immigration Station, the place where the immigrants were detained, was built to help enforcing a law about controlling immigration. In fact, the reason behind their negative attitude was that Americans were scared of losing jobs to the immigrants. Because of the bad attitudes and policies,