America said thank you by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

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In the mid-1800's, concerned that immigrants from the Far East wouldn't assimilate, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to keep out ... guess who.

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Scores of poems are vivid reminders of the hardships faced by Asian immigrants detained here between 1910 and 1940 under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892.

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U.S. immigration policy has long been sullied by racial prejudice: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the 1907 deal with Japan to stop migration from that country, the immigration acts of 1921 and 1924 that sought to halt migration of all groups except Northwest Europeans.

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