1882+Immigration+Act

On August 3.1882 congress passed a new immigration Act that stated that a 50 cents tax would be levied on all aliens landing at U.S. ports.The money collected was to be used to defray the expenses of regulating immigration and for the care of immigrants after landing.

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 * **This act means that in 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first piece of legislation that limited immigration into the U.S. The 1882 Act called for a 10-year moratorium on Chinese entering the U.S. This act stemmed mainly from white agitation, much of it led by second generation, Irish Americans in San Francisco and Los Angeles against cheap Chinese labor. This 10-year ban was to be extended indefinitely in 1892.**



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