For all practical purposes , the Exclusion Act , along with the restrictions that followed it , froze the Chinese community in place in 1882 . Limited immigration from China continued until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 . From 1910 to 1940 , the Angel Island Immigration Station on what is now Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay served as the processing center for most of the 56,113 Chinese immigrants who are recorded as immigrating or returning from China ; upwards of 30 % more who showed up were returned to China . Angel Island State Park was where the Chinese immigrants were accepted to stay in the United States or made to leave . Furthermore , after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , which destroyed City Hall and the Hall of Records , many immigrants ( known as " paper sons " ) claimed that they had familial ties to resident Chinese-American citizens . Whether these were true or not can not be proven
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Chinese Exclusion Act