Theres a great and sound connection between criminal law and immigration law. I dont know how much he will touch on that today. He has an undergraduate degree at wesleyan and at the university of michigan. He then went on to do advanced law degree at yale. Paraphrase president kennedy in this context, having gone a michigan education, he then went on to get a yell to great so that he could be w yale degree so a that he could be a success in life. Jack has just recently coedited a book, or cowritten on the 1965 immigration act, which is what he will talk about. I will say anymore because he can tell us all about it. Thank you for the introduction and for organizing the conference. Thanks to the capital historical society. Under the talk about the immigration and nationality amendments of 1965. I have two prepositions. One controversial and the other on controversial. Fall begin with the un controversial one, and that these amendments enacted in 1955 for the most powerful since reconstru
[ inaudible ] when it passed in congress in 1882, it passes overwhelmingly. The vote in the house of representatives is Something Like 25037. There is a lively debate and several people, several congressmen, several senators speak eloquently against it. There is one senator from massachusetts, George Frisbee hore, almost forgotten today, he leads the fight against it. And he does for his whole life in the senate for the next 20 years. But every time it comes up for a vote in 1882, 92, 1902, it has fewer and fewer defenders and it becomes national policy. Yeah. Im struck by the dichotomy of the culture which is kinder to the chinese, and the politics. So can you talk about how that was so different, because you would think that the one would influence the other. Thats an extremely complicated question. What happens is the chinese, many chinese are coming to america, in late 1800s, and white workers accuse them of working for lower wages. And being imported here, meaning being carried in
Congress, 150 years ago in 1866, when congress is debating what becomes the 14th amendment, the 14th amendment begins by saying all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to their jurisdiction, ie, not the children of diplomats, are citizens of the United States. And there was a strong attempt by the delegation from california and oregon to amend that to say all persons except chinese would be citizens of the United States. And to the great credit of the United States congress, then in the hands of the antislavery Republican Party that had just led the nation to both saving the nation and ending slavery, the majority of congress simply said, no, all persons means all persons, were not going to get into the business of excluding particular groups of people. And so that in part explains the subsequent conflict over chinese immigration and chinese rights, because the 14th amendment meant their children would be citizens of the United States, even when the naturalizat
Gabriel chan discusses whether the initial intent of the 1965 immigration act was to diversify america or was an intended consequence. Professor chin argues despite much racial tension, lawmakers at the time and much more diverse america was inevitable. The lecture part of a twoday symposium hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society on the history of immigration. This is about 40 minutes. Our next speaker is gabriel chin, who is a professor of law at the university of california, davis. Jack specializes in both criminal law, and as this conference on phones, we realize theres a great and sound connection between criminal law and immigration law. I dont know how much he will touch on that today. He has an undergraduate degree at wesleyan and at the university of michigan. He then went on to do advanced law degree at yale. If i could paraphrase president kennedy in this context, having gone a michigan education, he then went on to get a yell to went on to get a yale degree so that h
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