re: #265 HappyWarrior

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

The railroad barons used Asian labor to build the railroads because they could get away with paying them less. As soon as they didn’t need them for the railroads, the Chinese Exclusion acts passed.