and the 1882 Immigration Act denied entry to "convicts (except those convicted of political offences), lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become public charges." 8 An 1891 law refused entry ...

This law, with the 1882 Immigration Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act, made it much harder for immigrants to enter the U.S. The foreign-born population then fell to 4.7% by 1970. Throughout the ...

Sadly, these workers often met only racism and discrimination, which was capped by the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. For the next sixty years, immigration from Asia to the United States ...

The Page Act prefigured the near-total ban on Chinese immigration to the U.S. seven years later, with the Exclusion Act of 1882—the country’s first federal law to restrict a group on the basis ...