U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act: the tragic history of Chinese im
USINFO | 2013-10-23 16:07

 

Lead: May 6, 1882, 131 years ago today, the U.S. Congress passed the American history of a limited ban immigration bill - "on the implementation of the relevant provisions of the various treaties of Chinese law," which is commonly known as 1882 U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act. United States in 1882, "Chinese Exclusion Act" of life and death
1882 introduction of the United States, "Chinese Exclusion Act" simple and crude, its main contents include: 1, the absolute prohibition of laborers immigration decade; 2, other ranks of Chinese Americans, without proper documents, should be deported; 3, in the future all over shall not permit Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen. Since then until 1943 the repeal of the Act of 61 years ago, the U.S. government has issued 15 Similarly Chinese Exclusion Act.

The Chinese Exclusion Act (Order) issued the reason, considering the interests of both the stark reality, but also the human "civilization" misguided bear the consequences.

1882 Chinese Exclusion Origin: Chinese workers no longer have use value
From 1820 to 1882, although it is free to emigrate to America during the Chinese, but the Chinese in the United States has suffered discrimination. If in 1852 the State of California through the "foreign miners license tax", the high exploit laborers; 1854, the California Supreme Court also announced that the Chinese are not allowed to testify in court; Again in 1870, the San Francisco Parliament through the "Cube Space Act," provides the city within the housing, each adult guest, 500 cubic meters of space required, the bill is clearly against the densely populated city of China Overseas Chinese as such, within two months after the introduction of the Bill, there Huaqiao 247 arrested; In December, the San Francisco City Council passed the "street knows the weight of regulations," the people are not allowed to walk on the sidewalk, hands are baskets, and offenders fined five yuan, which aims to ban Chinese person knows the weight of the goods transported; 1876 San Francisco through the "laundry shop and regulations," do not need to pay taxes quarterly carriage delivery by 15 yuan, laborers have always been frugal, mostly human transportation, the statute apparently also for the Chinese people ......

1882 of the "Chinese Exclusion Act", which means many of the above local exhaust warfarin has been recognized by the U.S. federal government. The bill introduced to promote the fuse is one of the many unemployed white American anger at the laborers, believed to menial laborers wage demands snatched their jobs, and therefore anti-Chinese violence incidents occur frequently; politicians to cater to the "opinion "Getting votes cast, openly anti-Chinese campaign platforms included among their own.

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