What difficulty did both Chinese and Japanese immigrants face when trying to pass through immigration stations in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Both Chinese and Japanese immigrants faced laws that restricted immigration to the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act barred most Chinese laborers, and later agreements and laws sharply limited Japanese immigration. The difficulty was therefore legal exclusion or restriction, not being sent to different stations or not being separated by nationality.

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