Webb also vigorously prosecuted land transfers made to avoid enforcement of the Alien Land Law Act of 1913 that prohibited ownership of land in California by Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians who were racially ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
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Although initially opposed to the bill, Johnson eventually gave in to political pressure and supported the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which prevented Asian immigrants ( excluded from naturalized citizenship because of their race ) from owning land in the state.
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On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing Lieutenant General naturalized citizenship as members of an " unassimilable " race . ) Later orders confined Japanese Americans to Military Area No . 1, which included Seattle, where Hirabayashi lived.
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While it is true that " natural born citizen " is not defined anywhere within the text of the Constitution and that the Constitution makes use of the phrase " citizen " and " natural born citizen ", Supreme Court Decisions from United States v . Wong Kim Ark to the present have considered the distinction to be between natural-born and naturalized citizenship.
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(7 ) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Article, in case of a person born to Nepali woman citizen married to a foreign citizen, he / she may acquire naturalized citizenship of Nepal as provided for by a Federal law if he / she is having the permanent domicile in Nepal and he / she has not acquired citizenship of the foreign country.
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In 1922, the Court ruled in " Takao Ozawa v . United States " that ethnic Japanese were not United States vs . Wong Kim Ark " had determined that all persons born in the United States, including Asian Americans, were citizens, these cases confirmed that foreign-born Asian immigrants were legally excluded from naturalized citizenship on the basis of race.
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In conclusion, the Court also noted that " Congress, by the Act of February 5, 1917, 39 Stat . 874, c . 29, ?3, has now excluded from admission into this country all natives of Asia within designated limits of latitude and longitude, including the whole of India, " suggesting its intention that natives of India also be excluded from eligibility for naturalized citizenship.
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Further changes to racial eligibility for naturalized citizenship were ratified after 1940, when eligibility was also extended to descendants of races indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, Filipino persons or persons of Filipino descent, Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent, and persons of races indigenous to India . The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 prohibits racial and gender discrimination in naturalization.
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On the U . S . immigration laws prior to 1965, sociologist Stephen Klineberg cited the law as clearly declaring " that Northern Europeans are a superior subspecies of the white race . " The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U . S . citizenship to whites only, and in the 1923 case, " United States v . Bhagat Singh Thind ", the Supreme Court ruled that high caste Hindus were not " white persons " and were therefore racially ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
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Another was " An Act to Discourage Immigration to this State of Persons Who Cannot Become Citizens Thereof ", which imposed on the master or owner of a ship a landing tax of fifty dollars for each passenger ineligible to naturalized citizenship . " To Protect Free White Labor against competition with Chinese Coolie Labor and to Discourage the Immigration of Chinese into the State of California " was another law ( aka Anti-Coolie Act, 1862 ) that imposed a $ 2.50 tax per month on all Chinese residing in the state, except Chinese operating businesses, licensed to work in mines, or engaged in the production of sugar, rice, coffee or tea.
