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Supervisor Proposes Resolution To Maintain Ferry Service To Angel Island As Operator Seeks To End It


Supervisor Proposes Resolution To Maintain Ferry Service To Angel Island As Operator Seeks To End It
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With the Blue & Gold Fleet possibly ending its ferry service from San Francisco to Angel Island, Supervisor Gordon Mar on Tuesday called for a resolution supporting continued service to the island to honor the estimated one million immigrants who were once detained there.
Blue & Gold Fleet announced in December that it was seeking to end the service due to declining ticket sales, filing a request to discontinue with the California Public Utilities Commission.
Between 1910 and 1940, the island was used as a station to enforce the country s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other immigration policies, with Asian immigrants being detained and interrogated there. More than 200 Chinese poems carved into the station s wall by detainees remain as evidence of the era. ....

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