The Chinese exclusion laws of the 1880s created special legal problems, which numerous have explored.
The Chinese exclusion laws were repealed in 1943.
The same Chinese exclusion laws also kept the population in Syracuse small.
It separated U.S. trade interests from the immigration issue, and made a legal opening for an exclusion law.
The measure successfully passed, with similar exclusion laws adopted by the Legislature over the next several decades.
The federal exclusion law was clearly intended to bar drug dealers and other tenants who pose a hazard to public order.
From 1923 to 1967, immigration from China was suspended due to exclusion laws.
Bird was an advocate for equality, and sought to reform the race-based exclusion laws in Canada.
He notes that, "(it) did not lead to exclusion laws, much less to riots or pogroms."
Racial exclusion laws prompted the first settlers to venture into the Washington region.
