Chinese immigrants, who were mostly men, provided cheap labor, often working on farms, in low-paying industrial jobs, and in railroad construction. But other Americans viewed them as unfair economic competition. Not only were the Chinese, but they were accused of bringing drug use, prostitution, and gangs to the U.S.
As a result, the Chinese Exclusion Act was introduced on February 28, 1882, by Senator John F. Miller of California. On the Senate floor, lawmakers called Chinese immigrants a “.” The Chinese posed an economic danger to the U.S., Miller said, as they held jobs that the senator perceived as being taken away from white Americans, so he suggested excluding Chinese immigrant laborers from the country. Voting to exclude the Chinese would be for the public good, Miller said.
What a Chinese girl did in 1892
I posted records of Chinese exclusion detainees from the 1880s and 1890s. These records are reminders of longstanding racism. washthehate
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” Franklin D. Roosevelt