He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woods and mountains, a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, the beasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark which they made.
Immigration Station. In 1905, construction of the Immigration Station began in the area then known as North Garrison. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into partial operation in 1910. It was designed to process Chinese immigrants whose entry was restricted by the Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882.
The National Origins Quota of 1924, according to the Immigration Act, was the first permanent limitation on immigration into the United States and established the &quot;national origins quota system.&quot; In conjunction with the Immigration Act of 1917, it governed American immigration policy until 1952.