With the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 the United States for the first and only time in its immigration history had restricted immigrants specifically based on their race. Its passage resulted from decades of protest over the growing presence of Chinese laborers in the country. This  is the story of the enforcement of Chinese Exclusion laws in the state of Texas. 

Why? Well, because Texas’s Chinese population began only after the passage of Chinese Exclusion Laws. So, at a time when California and other states were limiting and restricting their Chinese populations, Texas’s Chinese population actually grew and, in some cases, flourished.

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