What are the Chinese Exclusion Laws?
The Chinese Exclusion Laws involved legislation Congress passed between 1879 and 1904 that explicitly discriminated against persons of Chinese descent based on race.
The laws imposed increasingly severe restrictions on immigration and naturalization. Congress repealed the laws as a wartime measure in 1943,
without any express acknowledgement that the laws violated fundamental civil rights.
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