America - the land of freedom of opportunity

Most Americans can offer a nice metaphor of the Statue of Liberty such as this, but what has happened when America's social policy no longer reflects such a warm welcome? In recent years, voters have been charged with deciding whether illegal immigrants and their children have a right to pursue their dreams in safety in this country and with the support of public benefits. They have been required to judge whether the U.S. Constitution should protect illegal immigrants in the same way it protects those born and naturalized here. It would seem, that, as evidenced by the voters' affirmation of Proposition 187 and Proposition 200, in California and Arizona respectively, the prevailing social movement is now against immigrants.

Though America used to welcome immigrants in New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay with open arms, issues of immigration and "u

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ntz). The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban immigration by race or nationality. In addition to simply barring entrance to the country, the Chinese Exclusion Act also mandated that Chinese "non-laborers" who desired to enter the U.S. to obtain certification from the Chinese government prior to leaving China declaring that they were qualified to immigrate. It was difficult, however, for the Chinese to prove that they were non-laborers, because the language of the law defined the "excludable" as "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in Mining." As intended, this language made it very difficult for any Chinese to enter the country after 1882 (Galante, para.4). For the Chinese already in the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act imposed new requirements upon them by requiring them to obtain re-entry certification if they left the country for any reason. Furthermore, Congress refused State and Federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts still had the right to deport Chinese. Even though the Chinese Exclusion Act expired after ten years, in 1892, the Geary Act extended it another ten years. This extension, which Congress made permanent in 190
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