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 ...

Lacking support for restricting family-based immigration, the Trump administration is planning to act unilaterally by radically redefining an obscure 1882 immigration law.

In early 1882, Congress overwhelmingly approved the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese immigration, was one of the most important immigration restrictions in American history.It barred large numbers of Chinese immigrants ...

Sunday marks the centennial of one of the darkest, most discriminatory immigration turns in American history: the passage of the Immigration Act of 1917. The law banned immigrants from the Asiatic ...

The law limited Chinese immigration and barred them from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. ... As Chinese Exclusion Act Turns 135, ... Chinese Immigration During The Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.

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 ...

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 ...

8 Immigration Act, 1882. 9 50 U.S.C. Sections 21-23, 1798. 10 An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese, Section 1 and Section 2, 1882.