The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US-China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.
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It is not well-known now, but as of 1878 (ref: American Popular Dictionary, 1879) there were 433,000,000 in China (as compared to 199,000,000 in British India, 72,000,000 in the Russian Empire, and 33,000,000 in the United States). The Chinese Exclusion Act might sound like some sort of discrimination until you realize that deciding whom to admit into your country is quite literally a question of whether you even have a country afterwards. China was a massive population, as is Islam today (1,200,000,000). Anyone who denies the obvious in favor of some fear of "discrimination against Islam" is a fool.
” China was a massive population, as is Islam today (1,200,000,000). Anyone who denies the obvious in favor of some fear of “discrimination against Islam” is a fool. “
Or a traitor. Or both.
Immigration to America is a prilege, not a right.