In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed into law. Chinese immigrants started to merge to America in the late 1840's. It was the first restriction on free immigration in U.S. History. The Chinese Exclusion Act made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship. The act banned all chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials. This also affected Asians. After the ten years, in 1992, they extended the law for another ten years.
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