“... That statue represents liberty holding a torch which lights the passage of those of all nations who come into this country. But are the Chinese allowed to come?” (Archuleta 1) Immigrants from all over were allowed in America, but those from China were purposely excluded. Chinese immigrants faced hardships when arriving in America, when finding jobs, and when facing discrimination. Firstly, immigrants from China slowly came to the USA but after quite some time, numbers started to rise quickly. The first Chinese immigrant arrived in 1820. Over the next twenty-seven years, numbers did not rise very much. At that time, there was only one thousand. The first large number of Chinese was the year after, 1848. They decided to come to the
