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"In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief agency responsible for implementing Federal regulations mandated by the Chinese exclusion laws. Both the…

Coast Guardsmen at the Ellis Island Training Station.

English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

"Photograph shows Japanese American young children carrying American flags in program to promote their assimilation into American society during forced removal to the temporary concentration camp during World War II."

Track maintenance workers, called "gandy dancers" in railroad slang, patrol the Oregon Pacific Railroad in a hand

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the U.S. during the late 19th century, particularly around the time of the Chinese…

Immigration and Nationality Act with Amendments and notes on related laws. Included: summaries of pertinent judicial decisions.

Medha Karve was born in Mumbai, India in 1957 to parents of first-generation Indian-Americans. When she was 9 years old, her father immigrated to the US as a scientist at Yale University with his family and was one of the first scientists to study…

Men sitting on wooden sidewalk, one Indian or South Asian man in turban

Chinese miners work along streams with cradles, water buckets, and picks.