Immigration Policies of America

The United States Immigration policy had many changes. Acts were passed to limit immigration. Also to reduce the number of people.
In May 6, 1882 the government passed the CHAR 126 to halt immigration from China to the United States. The act made it so that after 90 days no Chinese laborer could come to America for ten years. The government said afterwards that the ''Chinese laborers disturbed the good order of certain localities.'' But in 1865 this is not the way people thought of Chinese laborers. In 1865 Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railroad said that the Chinese laborers worked better than the white laborers. He also said that that without them the railroad wouldn't have been completed in time. He mentions this in document one. Then in 1884 agents went to Italy from America to look for workers for the iron mines in Missouri. The agents told the workers that they could bring their families two years later. This all......

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