ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Japanese Americans, The Nitro Girls, United States V. Wong Kim Ark
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8 year old mamie tape denied entry to spring valley school. Code, 1880 requiring education access to all children. Establish separate schools for children of mongolian or chinese descent. When such separate schools are establish, chinese or. Mongolian children not be admitted into any other schools. Mary tape"s letter to school board 1885. Dear sirs, will you please to tell me! Is it a disgrace to be born a. They is no other worldly reason that you could keep her out except. Mccarran internal security act (1950) paved way for possibility of internment camps of chinese. Federal government absolute power to exclude if necessary. Us government ruled that chan chae ping does not have the right to reenter because he is a chinese alien. Citizenship by birth jus solis (birth right) overrides jus sanguinis. Court: us had sovereign right to deport non-citizens. All laundromats that were wooden had to get special licensing because it is a fire hazard.