US apologizes For Chinese Exclusion Acts

[longyi]

The US House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for a century-old law that prevented Chinese from immigrating to the US at the turn of the 20th century.

The resolution, approved by the Democratic-led Senate in October, formally expressed regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned Chinese workers from further immigration and barred existing residents from naturalization and voting.

The act lasted for roughly six decades, and marked the first and only time the US federal government explicitly rejected an immigration group on no basis other than their origin.

US apologizes for Chinese Exclusion Act - Globaltimes.cn


The Exclusion Act barred not only Chinese, but also citizens of many Asian countries.

 

[KRAIT]

US bending over too much ...first SCS row now this....

 

[Rusty]

Only Indians would be upset at government apologizing for wrongful and racist policies of the past.

So can they blame us for calling them salves to their white masters?

 

[Safriz]

well the damage has been donewhats the point in apologizing after a 100 years?
Popularity stunt?

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

I wonder if the US has made an apology to the African countries that they enslaved, packed into cargo ships like livestock and shipped 6000 miles to be chained and shackled and forced into slavery.

 

[Sasquatch]

never to late.

 

[Pakistanisage]

well the damage has been donewhats the point in apologizing after a 100 years?
Popularity stunt?

The idea is to earn a few BROWNIE POINTS with a rising Superpower which just offered 42 Billion USD to bail out IMF.

 

[Sasquatch]

Only Indians would be upset at government apologizing for wrongful and racist policies of the past.

So can they blame us for calling them salves to their white masters?

lol

 

[longyi]

The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act, which permitted Chinese nationals already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens and stop hiding from the threat of deportation. It also allowed a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year. Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Despite the fact that the exclusion act was repealed in 1943, the law in California that Chinese people were not allowed to marry whites was not repealed until 1948.Other states had such laws until 1967, when the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional.

Chinese Exclusion Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My grandfather came to the US as a kid but never became a US citizen before he died.

 

[Sasquatch]

US bending over too much ...first SCS row now this....

.....

 

[siegecrossbow]

About time. Good to see historical wrongs being addressed.

 

[faithfulguy]

No need to apologize as this is something that was repealed 60 years ago. Also, there is no compensation that goes with it so the apology is pointless.

 

[Sasquatch]

My grandfather came to the US as a kid but never became a US citizen before he died.

sorry to hear that.

 

[longyi]

sorry to hear that.

Actually he was very proud of it as he always told his friends who urged him to become a citizen: " I'm a Chinese, why should I want to be a 'lou fan'". , referring as 'old foreigner' in Cantonese.

 

[ahfatzia]

The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act, which permitted Chinese nationals already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens and stop hiding from the threat of deportation. It also allowed a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year. Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Despite the fact that the exclusion act was repealed in 1943, the law in California that Chinese people were not allowed to marry whites was not repealed until 1948.Other states had such laws until 1967, when the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional.

Chinese Exclusion Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My grandfather came to the US as a kid but never became a US citizen before he died.

Even though the repeal of the Exclusion Act was aimed toward the Chinese but the result was to open up immigrations to all non white nations. America now becomes the most racial mixed country in the world. Although I have no statistic but I wouldn't surprise it has immigrants from every country.