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Immigrants grow economies

Governments can’t afford to restrict migration despite the backlash

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

One October day in 1871, a 500-strong mob stormed Los Angeles’ Chinatown and in two hours slaughtered 19 Chinese. The massacre was just one instance of the hostility directed at ‘job-stealing’ Chinese immigrants in the American West that in 1882 led to a US ban on immigration from China that lasted until 1943.

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