Answers are the same as gradpoint. Immigration official assumed that Chinese travelers would misrepresent themselves to get into America.
Ellis Island was the point where immigrants arrived to be processed into the United States.
Immigrants had to wait for a day or two days, In Angel Island immigrants didn't had to wait that long.
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Immigration to the west coast mainly consisted of Chinese immigrants (except during the Chinese Exclusion Act). Chinese immigrants worked on the railroad and moved somewhat throughout the west. Immigration in the east mainly consisted of southern and eastern European immigrants. They would arrive at Ellis Island and rarely move about the east, they would usually stay in major cities such as NYC and Philadelphia. Immigrants of the east had difficulties assimilating, as most of the WASPS wanted, because they tended to keep their culture and traditions. Most of the immigrants were young men and had little education and did not speak much English and went to work in factories.
Chinese immigrants never went through Ellis Island. They went through Angel Island.14
Ellis Island was the point where immigrants arrived to be processed into the United States.
14 million, most of which were European
Ellis island from Europe and Angel Island from Asia.
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Most of the immigrants processed at the Angel Island station in San Francisco Bay were Chinese.
In the early 20th Century, immigrants were "processed" at Ellis Island in the port of New York City. They arrived in passenger & cargo ships.
They were happy to be there and had survived the trip getting there.
Most German immigrants to the United States arrived in the United State in large ships that arrived in ports of immigration like New York's Ellis Island.
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Ellis Island in New York Harbor and Angel Island in San Fransisco bay
Angel Island in San Francisco bay