Angel Island Poems and "Rasha"

When informing Rasha and her family that they would be detained, the official "sounded like he was lecturing them, telling them with a kind of official nonchalance that we're cleaning out the country and you're the dirt" (Bayoumi 24). America has a history of "cleansing" immigrants in the name of security. Bayoumi mentions the Japanese interment after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but parallels can be drawn between "Rasha" and the Angel Island poems we read earlier this semester. One anonymous Angel Island poet wrote:

"America has power, but not justice.
In prison, we were victimized as if we were guilty.
Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal.
I bow my head in reflection but there is nothing I can do."

We can clearly see the pain at being unjustly detained for both the Angel Island poet and Rasha's family. Bayoumi expressed Rasha's sentiments, saying that:

"At least if she had committed a crime, she would have stood in front of a judge and answered the charge against her. If convicted, she would have been properly sentenced, and then she would know exactly how long she was to be here. But as a detainee she had no idea when she would be let out." (30)

Bayoumi says that the prison guards are "beasts acting like gods"  in the same way that the immigration officials at Angel Island were brutal (Bayoumi 29). Both groups have been victims of racial profiling and discrimination. They were unjustly incarcerated and sought justice to the best of their abilities. The Angel Island poets wrote on the walls and Rasha yelled at an official in a restaurant.

How else are these texts similar?