What Will We Risk To Defy Unjust Immigration Orders?

In this anxious moment, I find it helpful to remember a similar era from the late 19th century, a time when Chinese migrants, under threat of mass deportation, collectively resisted with one of the greatest instances of civil disobedience in U.S. history. Following the passage of the 1892 Geary Act, which continued barring Chinese laborer migration and required all Chinese residents to register as aliens, about 90,000 Chinese — roughly 9 out of 10 Chinese in the U.S. at the time — defied unjust government orders to protest their racial treatment.