Rummaging around in a research trail of clues
I happened upon this piece of Immigration Law.
It clarified some things about "the why" some things were done the way they were.
Basically – a country dedicated to the rights and freedoms of its people will always find itself in conflict with other countries and some people who DO NOT believe in such freedoms and rights.
Those who established the Constitution and our freedoms were WHITE EUROPEANS. They defied the most powerful nations in the world to gain a country that preserves liberty. To preserve that nation of liberty meant to be WATCHFUL for those who would threaten it.
And thus, when immigrants were coming by millions from various countries those who were BORN IN AMERICA were cautious of their numbers, such that they began to restrict such immigration. This may well appear to be "WHITE NATIONALISM" when in reality it is CAUTION about who might be invading in order to take control of the country.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_Agreement_of_1907
Anti-Chinese sentiment motivated American entrepreneurs to recruit Japanese laborers.[2] In 1885, the first Japanese workers arrived in the Kingdom of Hawaii, which was then independent.
Most Japanese immigrants wanted to reside in America permanently and came in family groups, in contrast to the Chinese immigration of young men, most of whom soon returned to China. They assimilated to American social norms, such as on clothing. Many joined Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
As the Japanese population in California grew, they were seen with suspicion as an entering wedge by Japan. By 1905, anti-Japanese rhetoric filled the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Japanese Americans did not live only in Chinatown but throughout the city. In 1905, the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League was established and promoted four policies:
— Extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act to include Japanese and Koreans
— Exclusion by League members of Japanese employees and the hiring of firms that employ Japanese
— Initiation of pressure the School Board to segregate Japanese from white children
— Initiation of a propaganda campaign to inform Congress and the President of that "menace".[5]
Tensions had been rising in San Francisco, and since the 1905 decisive Japanese victory against Russia, Japan demanded treatment as an equal. The result was a series of six notes communicated between Japan and the United States from late 1907 to early 1908. The immediate cause of the Agreement was anti-Japanese nativism in California.
In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education passed a regulation whereby children of Japanese descent would be required to attend separate, segregated schools. At the time, Japanese immigrants made up approximately 1% of the population of California, many of whom had immigrated under a treaty in 1894 that had assured free immigration from Japan.[3][6]
In the Agreement, Japan agreed not to issue passports for Japanese citizens wishing to work in the Continental United States, thus effectively eliminating new Japanese immigration to the United States. In exchange, the United States agreed to accept the presence of Japanese immigrants already residing there; to permit the immigration of wives, children, and parents; and to avoid legal discrimination against Japanese American children in California schools.
There was also a strong desire on the part of the Japanese government to resist being treated as inferiors. Japan did not want the United States to pass any such legislation as had happened to the Chinese under the Chinese Exclusion Act. US President Theodore Roosevelt, who had a positive opinion of Japan, accepted the Agreement as proposed by Japan to avoid more formal immigration restrictions.
[There were few Japanese school children and so whites had no problem with the integration within schools. "The Exclusion League" got involved and compelled the segregation of Orientals from white people.
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The Gentlemen's Agreement was never written into a law passed by the US Congress but was an informal agreement between the United States and Japan, enacted via unilateral action by President Roosevelt. It was nullified by the Immigration Act of 1924, which legally banned all Asians from migrating to the United States.