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TBF, Chinese could become Christian.

TBF, immigration was restricted in the 1920s--1921 and 1924--so this was over a decade before 1936. And yet Southerners still weren't calling for importing Chinese in the 1921/1924-1936 time period. Ilya is a male name. He's male. And Yes, he does believe in a presumption in favor of open...

Yes, the argument of people such as Ilya Somin is that the US Constitution grants the US federal government power over naturalization but not over immigration itself. Yeah, that's what I'm curious about as well. Once you're in the country, wouldn't you be free to move to other US states? I...

If immigration remains a state issue rather than a federal issue (it's unclear that the US federal government was actually supposed to have the power to regulate immigration from an originalist perspective), then it's possible that Chinese immigration to the US could last a bit longer relative...

Here's an interesting AHC: Delay the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US for as long as possible. For instance, Canada had a head tax on Chinese immigrants (but not on any other immigrants--how convenient!) but didn't pass a similar Chinese Exclusion Act until 1923. FWIW, I was thinking of having...