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  2. Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese government did not want to harm its national pride or to suffer humiliation like the Qing government in 1882 in China from the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Japanese government agreed to stop granting passports to laborers who were trying to enter the United States unless such laborers were coming to occupy a formerly-acquired home ...

  3. 1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riots - Wikipedia

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    The Asian Exclusion League in Canada lobbied for Canada to do the same. The riots that broke out on September 7, 1907 were the accumulation of growing enmity toward the Asian immigrants that were coming to the United States and parts of Canada. [14]: 68 "By the end of October 1907, new arrivals totaled 11,440. Of these immigrants the Japanese ...

  4. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    A 1929 Act added provisions for prior deportees, who, 60 days after the act took effect, would be convicted of a felony whether their deportation occurred before or after the law was enacted. [18] The Sabath Act [ 19 ] (45 Stat 1545, 4 March 1929, ch 683, Public Law 1101, H. R. 16440, 70th Congress) made provision in relation to declarations of ...

  5. California Joint Immigration Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League was formed in San Francisco, California in May 1905, two months after the California State Legislature passed a unanimous resolution requesting that Congress “limit and diminish the further immigration of Japanese.” [1] The resolution passed within a week after the San Francisco Chronicle began ...

  6. Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Japanese immigrants made up approximately 1% of the population of California; many of them had come under the treaty in 1894 which had assured free immigration from Japan. In 1907, Californian nativists supporting exclusion of Japanese immigrants and maintenance of segregated schools for Caucasian and Japanese students rioted in ...

  7. Biden commemorates the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the ...

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    “The repeal of this act was a decision almost wholly grounded in the exigencies of World War II, as Japanese propaganda made repeated reference to Chinese exclusion from the United States in ...

  8. Asiatic Exclusion League - Wikipedia

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    In December 1907, the organization was renamed the Asiatic Exclusion League to include the exclusion of Indian and Chinese immigrants in their agenda. Advocating for the "white man's country" and the prohibition of Asian labor immigration, the AEL set up branches across the Pacific coast of North America, achieving transnational status and ...

  9. Nativism in United States politics - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Japanese immigrants made up 1% of the state's population; many of them had come under the treaty in 1894 which had assured free immigration from Japan. In 1907, nativists rioted up and down the West Coast demanding exclusion of Japanese immigrants and imposition of segregated schools for Caucasian and Japanese students.