The elaborate fake identity network that smuggled thousands of Chinese men into 1920s America

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The Paper Sons of Angel Island

The Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay holds the secrets of one of the most ingenious immigration schemes in American history.

Between 1910 and 1940, this facility processed over one million immigrants, but the Chinese arrivals faced something different than other groups…

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