My great friend, I just wanted to inform you about how I am over here and the difficulties I had to go through. As you know, I am from China. I was one of those 25,000 people who migrated and arrived at California around 1850 due to the California Gold Rush. Since I’m not wealthy and cannot afford expensive tickets, I needed to travel in steerage. Once congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act; I had no need to worry. Even though I had my papers proving that my father was a citizen of the U.S, I had been unreasonably held in a facility for what felt like an eternity. When I finally arrived in America, I felt so relieved. It seemed like it was going to work out perfect. I was thinking about immediately getting a job inside the gold mines to
