The building seems to be a part of the past that no one wishes to recall. "Chinese don't want to bring up painful memories," a Chinese-American reporter says, "and Americans don't want to open old wounds."
這似乎是一段大家都不堪回首的過去；「華人不願提在天使島的辛酸往事，美國人也不肯自揭瘡疤」，一位美國華文刊物的記者說。