Following the trend of criminal and non-criminal arrests over the last two years by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Los Angeles area. Things have dramatically changed.
Photo by Harry Chase in the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1985. Workers at the C.H.B. Foods tuna cannery process fish at the company’s cannery on Terminal Island. The tuna-canning process had been invented on Terminal Island in 1903 by Albert Halfhill. Until then, tuna had been considered an inedible trash fish, but Halfhil's effort later turned the fish into one of the most common seafood items in America’s diet. At its peak in the 1950s, Terminal Island’s tuna canneries became the tuna capital of the world, consisting of sixteen canneries, employing some 17,000 people. Encroaching foreign competition, however, and diminishing local tuna stocks led to the decline and fall of this once-dominant L.A. industry. It had once provided for 80 percent of America’s tuna market. The last remaining cannery on Terminal Island, operated by Chicken of the Sea, closed in 2001.
No. You do not need a passport to visit the island, although, some have argued differently.
