America lost more of its soul when our government refused to let two men say goodbye to their families before being deported.

Looking to derail from your usual Santa Clarita routine? Consider a trip to Sacramento for a journey through California’s ...

Russell Leong, an Asian American studies academic at UCLA the last 30 years, attributed the lack of Asian American education ...

The vilification of this vital force has been turned into profitable politics. It remains to be seen whether Los Angeles marks the start of a new wave of aggression against immigrants in the West ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States. … ...

After the railroad was completed, a slew of anti-Chinese legislation passed. This stereograph (year unknown) shows Chinese immigrants posing along the Pacific railroad. Chinese workers laid a ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William ...

The Central Pacific Railroad began laying tracks in 1863. Because of a labor shortage — the white labor pool in California was scarce and unreliable — the company turned to Chinese immigrants.Around ...

Railroad officials were resolute about returning their Chinese workforce to the mines. “Yield nothing to the rioters,” Union Pacific’s president told a lieutenant.

As the incoming Trump administration threatens Chinese immigrants with deportation, it is urgent to draw the lessons from the ugly history of Chinese Exclusion in the 19th century. A recent ...

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant crackdown on immigration in American history. We explore the factors that led to the Act and examine what happened to the economy after it passed.

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.