The New Laws That Are Different From the Old Laws

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The Supreme Court says that these laws violate the 14th Amendment. The key thing with these new laws is that they don't just target people from China or Japan, which could be considered a racial group. And so therefore it's a little bit broader in some ways than the alien land laws. New laws are justified explicitly on national security grounds in a way that old laws were not.

A new Florida law will restrict where Chinese citizens can buy homes, and other states may follow suit. The legislation is eerily similar to racist land laws from over 100 years ago. Vox reporter Li Zhou and Hofstra law professor Julian Ku explain.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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