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Buck Gee

Buck Gee is President of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.

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A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children wait to be processed as they are held in a wire mesh enclosure at the Angel Island Internment barracks in San Francisco Bay in the late 1920s. (AP Photo)

Whose country is this? America and the immigrant experience are intrinsically linked

Kevin Jennings, Buck Gee, Norman Mineta