... a lack of decisiveness but also the evasion of the undoubted duties of the federal government" (Jun 153). The problems of the Alien Land Law of 1913 did not just stop at the executive level. The first admission of the law made it undistinguishable to segregate Asian aliens from European ones. Since the "ineligible to citizenship" clause could not separate the two groups, many European protestors comprising ... "Great Britain, Canada, Italy, and Spain put protests before the State Department agains t the pending alien land bill of California" (Jun 158). The Eurocentric nature of California...

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