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The most recent era of mass voluntary migration was between 1850 and 1914. Over one million people a year were drawn to the new world by the turn of the 20th century.
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In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act preventing Chinese laborers from coming to the United States for ten years, and later the act was amended to prohibit virtually all Chinese immigration, a situation that lasted until the mid-1900s.
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Japanese immigration was restricted by the 1907 Gentleman's Agreement between the government of Japan and the United States
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The most recent era of mass voluntary migration was between 1850 and 1914. Over one million people a year were drawn to the new world by the turn of the 20th century.
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In 1919 and 1920, then-US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer instigated numerous roundups of immigrants, labeled "Palmer's Raids," that led to the deportation of thousands of people, on the basis that they were Communist agitators.
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The act banned all Asians from migrating to America and nullified the Gentlemen's Agreement