1. Woodrow Wilson and Immigration Laws
The first federal law on immigration restriction was enacted in 1875 and 1882. ... Another restrictive law on immigration took place in 1882, known as the ''Chinese Act''. ... The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. ... Finally, this fact of hostility to immigration in the late 19th century was strong in the United States and culminates as we will see later, with the Immigration Act in 1924. ...
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