Republican (nationalist) President Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, banning the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years, prohibiting Chinese nationals from becoming U.s. subject-citizens, and providing for the deportation of Chinese in the nation “illegally.”
NOTES:
- Article I, Section 8 [Clause 4] grants Congress “Power to … To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the united States.”
- The Constitution says nothing about immigration; that is a power reserved to the States via Article X of Amendment.
[updated 3/29/2025]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 222.
List of United States immigration laws – Wikipedia
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Chinese Exclusion Act – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
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