Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals, called Operation Wetback, offers lessons.
If he went back another decade Chinese folks would be, by and large, refused entry.
In 1943, Chinese immigration to the United States was once again permitted—by way of the Magnuson Act—thereby repealing 61 years of official racial discrimination against the Chinese.
If he went back another decade Chinese folks would be, by and large, refused entry.
I read that Chinese survivors of the Titanic were turned away from the US because of the Chinese exclusion act.