Seventeen years ago I produced this piece for National Geographic Today, a daily news journal broadcast on the newly launched National Geographic Channel.  The short two-part piece reflects on the experience of Chinese immigrants as they passed through the Angel Island Immigration Station, located in San Fransisco Bay.  Given the atmosphere today I thought it might be a useful exercise to look back once more.  The United States may be a nation of immigrants, but today’s situation continues to echo a painful past.