Suggested by our VERY BEST READERS . . . This is a win for local historians but it comes at a cost to our left coast friends and many Asian American communities.
Bright side . . . KCMO has IMPECCABLE resources, staffing and infrastructure for maintaining history and great accommodations for welcoming researchers from across the world . . . Still, a look at the protest is worthwhile and deserves a moment of consideration . . .
"The National Archives is planning to move immigration records from its San Bruno facility to Kansas City, Mo., a closure the agency says will save more than $4.7 million a year, according to an announcement.
"The planned closure in San Bruno has drawn opposition from Bay Area historians, community members and more than three dozen members of Congress, who have warned that moving the archives could make it harder to access records documenting the history of the West Coast.
"The San Bruno facility holds records from California, Nevada, Hawaii and Pacific Island territories, including tribal records. Its collections, for example, document Japanese American internment, the Chinese Exclusion Act era, Bruce Lee's immigration to the United States and court records for Wong Kim Ark's birthright citizenship case, a landmark immigration case. "
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National Archives to close Bay Area facility, move West Coast history to Kansas City, Mo.
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