"Letter from Chinese Inspector Thomas Thomas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Commissioner-General of Immigration Transmitting Jim Long's Request That His Certificate of Residence be Returned"
Title
"Letter from Chinese Inspector Thomas Thomas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Commissioner-General of Immigration Transmitting Jim Long's Request That His Certificate of Residence be Returned"
Creator
www.docsteach.org
Subject
Old immigration archives
Description
"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 Chinese Bureau within the Customs Service and the Chinese Division of the INS employed "Chinese" inspectors, people designated to enforce the Chinese exclusion laws. Immigration-related decisions made by these Federal officials were sometimes appealed to Federal courts, which also heard criminal cases involving Chinese alleged to be living in the United States illegally.
Publisher
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Researching in the National Archives,
Contributor
Thomas Thomas, Jim Long.
Date
6/6/1905 date of letter
Type
moving image and interactive resource
Language
English
Relation
A letter from an immigrant.
Coverage
Archive
Files
Collection
Citation
www.docsteach.org, “"Letter from Chinese Inspector Thomas Thomas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Commissioner-General of Immigration Transmitting Jim Long's Request That His Certificate of Residence be Returned",” Santa Clara University Digital Exhibits, accessed November 22, 2024, https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/items/show/4959.
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