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.
Individual states regulated immigration prior to the 1892 opening of Ellis Island, the countryâs first federal immigration station. New laws in 1965 ended the quota system that favored European immigrants, and today, the majority of the countryâs immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America. 1  Play video Faces of America. 2  Play video Detained at Ellis Island. 3  Play video The Light of Ellis Island.