On May 6, 1882, President Chester Arthur signed a law that reshaped America. More than a century later, Congress formally apologized for it. The Chinese Exclusion Act blocked Chinese workers from ...

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 new 837-page rule, which was long pushed by Trump aide Stephen Miller and will go into effect on October 15, is based off wording in the Immigration Act of 1882, which says that the U.S ...

Soon, anti-Chinese immigration became a political issue. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, preventing people of Chinese descent from entering the United States.

In 1882, Congress responded to nativist pressures by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act. It was the first significant legal restriction on immigration into the United States. It effectively barred ...

The new PBS documentary film The Chinese Exclusion Act by award-winning documentary filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu of Steeplechase Films sheds light on the important connections between the ...

On May 6, 1882, President Chester Arthur signed a law that reshaped America. More than a century later, Congress formally apologized for it. The Chinese Exclusion Act blocked Chinese workers from ...

US lawmakers in 1882 passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which blocked Chinese workers from coming legally to the country and blocked Chinese immigrants who were already living here from becoming US ...