Takao Ozawa Vs California Essay

The disaster destroyed records which generated a chance for Chinese residents to state that they were born in the United States. The opportunity gave Chinese citizens to bring their children to America, and be able to return to their village without losing their citizenship. They also claim “new” children had been born to them. Historians called them, “paper sons and daughters” — children on paper only without a direct family connection. These paper children were in effect “slots” which people could sell to allow new immigrants to come to this country (Paper Sons). California soon took action to make sure that not all Asian Americans were successful and hopefully discourage others to live in California. California created a new law, the alien …show more content…
Takao Ozawa applied for citizenship but was declined since he was not white nor African. He took this to court, known as Takao Ozawa v. U.S. which was decided that Japanese are ineligible for citizenship. His character and education background was categorized as an “ideal citizen” but was still denied for citizenship because he was not white nor African. Even when immigrants that have proven that they were modest citizens they were still being challenge by the Supreme Court. For Example, another court decision was made base upon property rights in 1923, when the United States Supreme Court conclude that it did not violate the equal protection base by the Fourteenth Amendment. Despite the manifest discrimination against Japanese and the deprivation of property rights, women were being challenge by the Cable Act. The act states that women could lose their citizenship by deciding to married non-citizens. It wasn’t until a law passed Congress in March of 1931 that all discrimination against women was eliminated and the law recognized citizenship equally between women and men. Even when a law was passed to discriminate Asian immigrants was harsh, but not until the disaster of Pearl Harbor that impacted many