Crosing the Border (from "Border Patrols")

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Joanne interviews historian Erika Lee about how the Chinese became the first “illegal immigrants” coming from Mexico after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. The system put in place to counter these crossings paved the way for immigration policy today.

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