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Most of the direct victims of the laws in question have already passed away. Fong's grandfather was held for two months at Angel Island, an immigration station near San Francisco that targeted and detained several hundred thousand Chinese immigrants from 1910 to 1940. Dale Ching, 88, arrived at Angel Island from China's Guangdong province in 1937 at age 16. Though his father was an American citizen, immigration authorities detained Ching for 3½ months. "My intent was to try to have a better life, better than in China," says Ching. "But at that time, they didn't want...
...surviving victims of the state and federal laws in question, despite the Japanese-American precedent. More important than individual compensation, he says, is to help educate younger generations about the mistakes of the past. That said, Fong may ask for funding to help preserve the Angel Island immigration station, dilapidated after decades of neglect. To complicate matters, the station is located within a state park that, along with several others, may be shut down to help balance California's budget shortfall...
...confession, he claimed that he and another gunman had orders to take hostages in the Chatrapathi Shivaji train station, where at least 58 people were killed...
...During the trial, a 10-year-old girl injured in the attacks identified him as one of the attackers. When Sebastian D'Souza - a photographer for the Mumbai Mirror who took the infamous photograph, above, of Qasab wielding an assault rifle in the train station - testified in June, Qasab put his head down and cried...
...fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs, but they didn't seem to care." - Sebastian D'Souza, who took the photographs of Qasab and other gunmen in the train station (the Independent...