Editing Chinese Exclusion Act (section)

==== Issues of the act ====
The Chinese Exclusion Act created fear and violence within Chinese communities as a result of immigration raids made legal through the Chinese Exclusion Act. During these raids they were at risk of being questioned, detained, or physically or verbally assaulted.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Latourette |first=Kenneth Scott |title=A History of Christian Missions in China |publisher=Macmillan |year=1929 |volume=1 |page=464 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015013161263?urlappend=%3Bseq=484%3Bownerid=13510798893552263-490 |oclc=644675050}}</ref> Targeting the Chinese was a day-to-day risk due to the anti-Chinese sentiment generated through the Chinese Exclusion Act their community was in danger.

An issue with the Chinese Exclusion act is that it established 'gatekeeping ideologies' within the US. Demonstrated through the act's mythological approach to restrict, exclude, and deport those believed to be 'undesirable'. The qualities associated with being 'undesirable' were categorized through individuals' race, gender, and class.{{sfn|Lee|2002}} Purposely excluding those who worked to build America, contribute to their economy, and build a home. This was the first American law 'gatekeeping' the country based on those who were not seen as worthy enough to enter based on race.

Another issue was there were many workarounds that people quickly created to bypass the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chinese women would travel to Canada to get a marriage license in order to reunite with their families.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Israel |first=Jerry |title=America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now |publisher=Lehigh University Press |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-934223-13-3 |editor-last=Goldstein |editor-first=Jonathan |pages=148–168 |chapter=Carl Crow, Edgar Snow, and Shifting American Journalistic Perceptions of China |editor-last2=Israel |editor-first2=Jerry |editor-last3=Conroy |editor-first3=Hilary |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuLCCXVebuEC&pg=PA148}}</ref> Men and women would walk across the American border intending to be arrested, to demand to go to court and claim they were born in America through providing a witness of their birth.<ref name="Lo2008">{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=Shauna |year=2008 |title=Chinese Women Entering New England: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, Boston, 1911–1925 |journal=The New England Quarterly |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=383–409 |doi=10.1162/tneq.2008.81.3.383 |jstor=20474653 |s2cid=57569937}}</ref> While the American and Canadian government did discover these workarounds and new laws were created, these methods still were accessible for several years after the exclusion act.