Strange Country Ep. 305: The Page Act

Hey Dash Hounds! Remember when that famous person said the thing that the other famous person put on a coffee mug? "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history?" Well it's true. And if you want another reminder, listen to Beth and Kelly this week as the Strange Country cohosts tell you about the time when Chinese women were wrongfully taken off the streets under The Page Act of 1875, the very first official legislation allowing some guy in charge to unkindly remove people from the country. This story is getting old but we keep it fresh. Thanks for listening. It is an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources dude: https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1875Immigration%20Act.pdf. Abrams, Kerry. "Polygamy, Prostitution and the Federalization of Immigratiuon Law." Columbia Law Review, vol. 105, no. 3, 2005, pp. 641-716. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6520&context=faculty_scholarship. "Better Lives Bitter Lies." National Parks Service, https://www.nps.gov/podcasts/better-lives-bitter-lies.htm. "Chinese Immigration Restriction." Federal Judicial Center |, https://www.fjc.gov/history/spotlight-judicial-history/chinese-immigration-restriction. Accessed 19 October 2025. Hijar, Katherine. "Chinese Women, Immigration, and the First U.S. Exclusion Law: The Page Act of 1875 - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (U.S." National Park Service, 25 October 2024, https://www.nps.gov/safr/blogs/chinese-women-immigration-and-the-first-u-s-exclusion-law-the-page-act-of-1875.htm. Accessed 19 October 2025. 150 Years of Border Patrol. https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/page-act/. "Page Act of 1875 - Wikipedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Act_of_1875. Accessed 19 October 2025. Young, William H. "Marriage and Family in Western Civilization." National Association of Scholars, https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/marriage_and_family_in_western_civilization.