A common feeling of those in Angel Island was that the US police and military on Angel Island was evil and that they were oppressing those who wanted to enter the country. He would probably describe how they would often get beaten up or how disease would easily spread since they were on an island or how there wasn't enough food.
Most current communist groups descended from the Maoist ideological tradition still adopt the description of both China and the Soviet Union as being state capitalist from a certain point in their history onwards—most commonly, the Soviet Union from 1956 to its collapse in 1991 and China from 1976 to the present.
starting from language ,mix of cultures, people fought for the freedom that we have today, inventions that we use till this day for example Thomas Edison wo invented the lightning bulb