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He argued labor patterns in Chinese immigrants that put them in a large amount of debt was a form of debt bondage. [5] The historiography of Chinese immigrants in the gold rush in California has since evolved to acknowledge immigration was voluntary, but the position that their labor was unfree is still strongly held by orthodox scholars.
Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States was introduced in the United States that targeted Chinese migrants following the California gold rush and those coming to build the railway, including: Anti-Coolie Act of 1862; Page Act of 1875; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Pigtail Ordinance
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States for a second term. Within an hour, CBP One, a program developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allow migrants to secure immigration appointments, was discontinued; migrants who accessed CBP One found that their appointments were canceled. [1]
Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8078-5448-4; Matthew Frye Jacobson. (2000). Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917. Hill and Wang, ISBN 978-0-8090-1628-0
Chinese for Affirmative Action, a decades-old California-based group that protects the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans, spoke with about 100 Chinese migrants on a recent trip to ...
The bill would prohibit "certain aliens or foreign entities" from acquiring real property in the state of Texas, including those with affiliations or origins from China. [112] The bill has also found support from Governor of Texas Greg Abbott. [113] Critics have compared the bill to the racist Chinese Exclusion Act and called it unconstitutional.
Now, the administration has announced its intention to roll back a 2011 federal guideline that limited immigration enforcement activities at or near schools, childcare centers, churches and hospitals.
Whereas, Chinese immigrants numbered less than 400 in 1848 and 25,000 by 1852. [13] Most Chinese immigrants in California, which they called Gam Saan ("Gold Mountain"), were also from the Guangdong province; they sought sanctuary from conflicts such as the Opium Wars and ensuing economic instability, and hoped to earn wealth to send back to ...