https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/biden-commemorates-80th-anniversary-repeal-chinese-exclusion-act-rcna130295President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the country.
In a White House official statement released Sunday, Biden said the legislation, enacted in 1882, was a measure that “weaponized our immigration system to discriminate against an entire ethnic group.”
It was the first major law restricting immigration into the United States; it was repealed in 1943.
“For generations, people of Chinese heritage have enriched our country — from Chinese laborers who did backbreaking work to build the transcontinental railroad in the 1800s to the Chinese Americans who serve in our military, to the authors, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars of today,” Biden said in the statement. “We honor them, and all immigrants, who continue to make extraordinary contributions to our nation.”
Those who do not are not Americans. For example:
The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law by then-president Chester A. Arthur, put a 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. It additionally prevented Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens.
This is a Western occupier.
By the late 19th century, anger and vitriol began to rise toward the Chinese community, as white laborers deemed Chinese migrants a threat to their jobs and livelihoods, as documented by the New York Historical Society. “The Chinese Must Go” became a popular rallying cry at the time.
These are Western occupiers. (See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/msg5063/#msg5063 )
“The Act, along with racism and xenophobia in other parts of American life, was part of the anti-Chinese “Driving Out” era which included the Rock Springs and Hells Canyon massacres,” Biden wrote in the statement, referencing two massacres that targeted Chinese immigrant miners.
This was what Western occupiers used to do to Americans.
“The repeal of this act was a decision almost wholly grounded in the exigencies of World War II, as Japanese propaganda made repeated reference to Chinese exclusion from the United States in order to weaken the ties between the United States and its ally, the Republic of China,” according to the State Department’s Office of the Historian.
Even Japan understood that the Western-occupied US was being un-American.
While Asian exclusion formally ended with the 1952 Immigration Act, racial, rather than national quotas were assigned to all Asian immigrants, according to the Office of the Historian. These quotas remained in place for over a decade, until the Immigration Act of 1965.
Only with the arrival of the Counterculture era did the US finally make more effort to be American.
Related:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/