the 1882 act declared that “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge…shall not be permitted to land.”…The 1952 revisions to immigration law maintained the idea that the government may exclude “paupers, profession...
The period from 1870 to 1920 was a time in US history when large numbers of immigrants continually arrived to bolster its population. With some notable exceptions, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, policy was relatively lax and enabled migrants to cross the oceans in search of a bet...
In the spring of 1882, Congress passed a bill suspending the immigration of Chinese laborers for twenty years. President Chester A. Arthur vetoed it, arguing that while a permanent bar to Chinese labor might be eventually justified, prudence dictated a shorter initial term. Congress responded by ...
Most countries, however, were unwilling to receive large numbers of refugees. Responding to domestic pressures to act on behalf of Jewish refugees, U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt convened, but did not attend, the Évian Conference on resettlement, in Évian-les-Bains, France, in July ...
25In 1882, Congress also passed its first general federal immigration policy to regulate European migration. That year, New York’s Board of Emigration Com-missioners had threatened to shut down its immigration depot, Castle Garden, if Congress did not act. The Immigration Act of 1882 mirrored ...
the racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, or the racially based immigration quotas of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, quotas not overturned until the mid-1960’s. If candidates are unwilling to acknowledge this history, they’ll be less able to describe the broader pattern of Trump’...
Chinese immigration can be roughly divided into three periods: 1849-1882, 1882-1965, and 1965 to the present. The first period, also known as the first wave, began shortly after the Gold Rush in California and ended abruptly with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first...
In August, the administration unveiled its regulation broadening the definition of “public charge,” a provision that dates back at least to the Immigration Act of 1882. The rule introduced by the Trump administration affects people who receive most forms of Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouch...
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Soon afterward as I was waiting for the subway (in Boston called the “T” – a young lady in her 30s approached me and asked me what Church I was part of and what my message in particular was. I explained briefly that I was with the Russian Orthodox Church and my mission to bring...