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The History of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Julian Koo is a law professor at Hofstra Law School in New York. The laws essentially banned certain groups of foreign citizens from buying land, he says. They only impacted China and Japan though was because they did not prevent all foreigners from buying land. It only prevented foreigners who were not eligible to become citizens from buyingland.