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The Chinese Must Go: The Story of the Chinese Exclusion Act

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President Trump's reaction to the Supreme Court ruling rejecting his administration's effort to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States by sarcastically congratulating Chinese Leader Xi Jinping , leads to exploring how a 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act signed by President Chester A. Arthur became the first major U.S. law to ban immigration and naturalization based explicitly on race and…