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Chinese Exclusion and the paper sons
1882
Chinatown, San Francisco
The first American law barring a nationality from immigrating. When the 1906 fire destroyed the city's birth records, Chinese residents claimed native-born status and sponsored paper sons, the reason Angel Island interrogations were so exhaustive.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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